"You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets."

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Source : Speech to students at Phillips Exeter Academy, 2007.

John Amaechi

#Cutting Quotes #Axes Quotes #World Quotes

“I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because Im recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because Im concentrating on what the character is going through.”
“No one in Washington realizes you can't borrow money endlessly.”
“You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.”
“There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.”
“When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.”
“If you run away from trouble, it always follows.”
“Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.”
“All my hurts my garden spade can heal.”

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