"People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone."

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Source : William Trevor (2009). “Love and Summer”, p.172, Penguin UK

William Trevor

#Running Quotes #People Quotes #Running Away Quotes

“A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.”

Source : Quoted in Time, 29 Sep 1986.
“I hate being told what to do! Especially by myself!”
“One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I said, whatever kind of career I had, it has served me well, but you do owe some people. And the people you owe are the folks who are going to come behind you. It's incumbent upon each watch â€” when you play your 10, 11 years and you're in your group â€” when you leave, I truly hope that you've done all you can possibly do to leave it a better place for the folks who come behind you.”
“"A good director is one that lets you improv," that's ridiculous. There's some actors who should not be improving and there are some scripts that should not be touched. I think it's just a case by case basis.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“You can only be you when you do your best. When you don't do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you. That's a seed that you should really nurture in your mind. You don't need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don't need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.”
“We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.”
“The only good dictator is a dead one.”

Source : George B.N. Ayittey (2011). “Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World”, p.193, St. Martin's Press
“Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'”

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