"Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you."

-- Chris Evert

#Player Quotes #Self Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”

Source : Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Nine princes in Amber. The guns of Avalon”
“Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.”
“Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.”
“I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.”
“The problem is that for almost any feature of humanity that you can name, whether it's the ability to suffer, whether it's the capacity to reason, whether it's having lives that can go better or worse, there are at least some other non-human animals that have all of these features as well. So to exclude non-human animals from the range of moral concern but to include all humans, just seems morally arbitrary.”
“Life does not always gives us the choices that we want”
“There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past.”
“I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.”

Source : "No Way But Up". Interview with Ari Karpel, www.menshealth.com. March 2, 2012.

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