"The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes."

-- Marina Abramovic

#Brother Quotes #Fall Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.”
“The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.”
“My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.”
“Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.”
“My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.”

Source : "My family values: Brian Blessed". Interview with Chris Hall, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.
“Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.”
“I love stories of female empowerment. I love stories of, "Hey, I'm an ordinary person." "No, you're not!" I love stories about not knowing you have it in you, but when called to task, you rise and you find out who you are.”
“The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.”

Source : "Pentagon Labels Founding Fathers, Conservatives as Extremists" by Todd Starnes, www.christianpost.com. August 26, 2013.

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