"The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating."

-- John Baird

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“Major organizational changes create uncertainty.”
“Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.”
“It is much easier to organize control over one industry serving many markets than over one market served by the products of several industries.”
“Still. Smokers out there, you know what I'm talking about. That moment, after you've had a huge meal, say at Thanksgiving, when you step outside in the cold, light up a cigarette and take a deep inhale ... that's about the best moment in the world, you know? All the smokers out there, you know that feeling. Sometimes, smoking is fantastic.”

Source : "Jim Leyland, America's Role Model". deadspin.com. October 3, 2005.
“I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish,”
“He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics.”
“Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.”
“I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.”

Source : "For Cicely Tyson and Kerry Washington, Roles of a Lifetime". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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