"There are very few lows but lots and lots of highs. You're in an incredibly privileged position because you're able to go along to major sporting events and be ringside. You can see and hear everything."

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Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Jill Douglas

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“We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience. ... [T]o know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize one's littleness, to sense dependence and interdependence, indebtedness and responsibility.”
“A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.”
“"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty. There were at least three uncannily accurate Margaret Thatchers, their eyelids fatigued with condescension and their voices swooping and whining like dive-bombers.”
“I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.”
“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
“I didn't have a big fat Greek wedding, but I have a lot of fat Greek friends.”
“Being crazy about someone isn't nice or passionate or deeply moving; it is, surprisingly enough, crazy.”
“People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.”

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