"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

-- Aristotle

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“It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.”
“There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.”
“I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names.”
“I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!”
“He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.”
“When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.”
“A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets him ... Every passing coachman called out to me: "Do you want to ride on the outside?" If I met only a farm worker on a horse he would say to me companionably "Warm walking sir," and when I passed through a village the old women in their bewilderment would let out a "God Almighty!”
“You are my siren,â€ he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. â€œMy temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.”

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