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“No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That's how real a dream can be and should be)”
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“Brave is not saying I have no fear. It’s being terrified and still moving forward.”
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“Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.”
Source : Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books
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“If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor.”
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“Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.”
Source : Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage
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“The recent market run-up that appreciated run-of-the- mill shares also chanced to send up those token gold holdings. Pure luck, undeserved and unlikely to reoccur. Good questions outrank easy answers.”
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“In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.”
Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.106, Verso
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“I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
