"As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble."

-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#Book Quotes #Humble Quotes #People Quotes

“In strategic affairs, clarity and consistency are very important.”

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“You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!”
“It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.”

Source : Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.95, Delphi Classics
“I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.”

Source : Lilian Jackson Braun (1990). “The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts”, p.142, Penguin
“I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director.”

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“When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.”
“Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.”
“There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”

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