"A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy."

-- Stephan Jenkins

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”
“What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.”
“I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.”

Source : "Wil Wheaton" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2002.
“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.”
“Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me.”

Source : Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”
“Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.”
“A desert is a place without expectation.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.313, A&C Black

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