"When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease."

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Source : Paul Shepard (1973). “The tender carnivore and the sacred game”

Paul Shepard

#Running Quotes #Heart Quotes #Men Quotes

“I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My charactersâ€”I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.”

Source : Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”
“I get really antsy if I stay in one place too long. Universal was really supportive and understood that I needed to go across the Atlantic to reinvent myself and to find my voice, my muse.”
“The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.”
“It's ok to say, 'this is what I want' and go after it.”
“Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.”
“I don't do live things.”
“The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.”

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