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“You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.”
Source : "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.
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“Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.”
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“I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.”
Source : Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”
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“A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.”
Source : Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.135, U of Nebraska Press
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“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees-tens of centuries old-that have been destroyed.”
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“Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ...”
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“Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.”
Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.9