"I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?"

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Nigel Dennis

“Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2009). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.268, Broadview Press
“I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.”

Source : "Ben Barnes Talks KILLING BONO and THE SEVENTH SON". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 1, 2011.
“I don't want to judge anyone's sex life - but I worry that those are the only options we are giving to our young people.”
“It is not understood that before life an individual decides to live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born. He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will kill a person who does not want to die.”
“Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.”

Source : Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer (2005). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.20, Oxford University Press
“I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.”
“I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.”
“East of the sun and west of the moon.”

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