"That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?"

-- Denis Johnson

#World Quotes #These Days Quotes #Fingers Quotes

“When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.”
“A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.”
“Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.”
“I think the most important thing is being in healthy relationships. That might be a weird answer, but I think emotional health is a big contributor to physical health. I think [having] good romantic relationships, but even friendships and family, around you and having strong, supportive people around you helps you have an overall healthy lifestyle.”

Source : "April Rose: On healthy relationships, good support groups, and the right way for women to exercise". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.”
“Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow.”
“I think marriage is ghastly.”
“Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.”

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