"Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing."

-- Gay Talese

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“The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two other writers that this reviewer can think of have each created an entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit, and they are Joyce and Proust. It is not pretentious to place Patrick O'Brian in the first canon of literature....”
“Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop”
“The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.”
“When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.”
“If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.”
“Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!”
“Johnny sort of popped into my head midway through the first draft, and he wouldn't leave. But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. In the first half of the movie, this guy is in the house not doing anything. I really needed an actor who's inventive and who will make enough idiosyncratic choices to make it entertaining to watch. And let's face it, Johnny Depp could make a nap interesting to watch.”
“When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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