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“When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.”
Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.413
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“My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.”
Source : "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. Janaury 28, 2016.
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“If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.”
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“I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.”
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“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.”
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“We were defined by what we did. What we had to do. I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are.”
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“Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.”
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“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
Source : David Foster Wallace (2012). “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men”, p.13, Hachette UK