"We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness."

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Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Scott Jurek

#Effort Quotes #Earth Quotes #Vegan Quotes

“Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.”
“I usually experiment with posture and physical attributes that may inform the character. Next, my impression gets a nice injection of inspiration when the costumes arrive and I can see his silhouette in the mirror. Then I go memorize all the lines and try and connect each line to a thought I think he might have. Then I show up on the day, wait my turn, and when the director calls "action," I trust that I have done enough work on my impression that I can just believe it strongly enough to play with abandon from inside that character.”
“The creative life [is] the only one for a serious man.”
“I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.”
“Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.”
“One Chinese tweet is equal to 3.5 English tweets. ... Because of this, the Chinese really regard this microblogging as a media, not only a headline to media.”
“In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it...”

Source : Auberon Waugh (1991). “Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography”, Vintage
“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

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