"For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other."

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Source : "Yessss!!!!". Quintin Jardine's blog, October 5, 2010.

Quintin Jardine

#Fall Quotes #Hero Quotes #Hands Quotes

“The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!”
“I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]”
“Yes, I'm proud to be a liberal.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of my waking-up mind. This is how it's always been with Light Bulb Fragment dreams; by the time I'm fully awake, they're gone.”

Source : Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.177, Canongate Books
“You're asking somebody who has a wife and is really happily married, 'So, what's your next wife going to be like?' And I'm like, 'What?'”

Source : "Man and Uber man" by Kara Swisher, www.vanityfair.com. December 2014.
“The pants come down. Most look shamefaced, but tha Arthur McBride is not the least bit shy about showing off his equipment, oh no, he isn't. He grins in my direction. 'Not all that impressive, boyo”

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