Quotes
Authors
G. M. Trevelyan

"Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis! Squire, farmer, blacksmith and labourer with their women and children came to see the fun, were at ease together and happy all the summer afternoon. If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt."

-- G. M. Trevelyan

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“The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.”

Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity. We're looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity. Like every generation before ours and every generation after, we're looking for Jesus-the same Jesus who can be found in the strange places he's always been found: in bread, in wine, in baptism, in the Word, in suffering, in community, and among the least of these.”
“I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember." I stopped, then continued: "so that I can remember without the pain killing me" And the days were stacking up. And weeks. And months. It was now almost the middle of June and he'd died in February, but I still felt like I'd just woken from a horrible dream, that I was suspended in that stunned, paralyzed state between sleep and reality where I was grasping for, but couldn't get a handle on normality.”
“Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game.”
“I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.”

Source : Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. July 22, 2010.
“Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.”
“Well, I think Hollywood, to be quite honest, I think they've run out of material.”
“True victory is victory over oneself.”

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