"There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers."

Source : Obert Skye (2009). “The Wrath of Ezra”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

Obert Skye

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“Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.”
“You need to make plans for your future, so plan your own future.”

Source : "Carolyn Hax Live: "Plan your own future"". live.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2016.
“Do you know why more people don't sober up? Because they don't wear their livers on the outside. If everyone wore their liver on their forehead, say, it would be on full view and people would say, 'Heffens, Jock, that liver of yours is looking fair hobnailed,' and they would get shamed into doing something about it.”

Source : M.C. Beaton (2009). “Death of a Poison Pen”, p.157, Hachette UK
“We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.”
“Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference.”
“Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.”
“I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big.”

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