"We must be challenged to improve, and adversity is the challenger."

-- John Wooden

#Adversity Quotes

“I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.”
“My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.”
“It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.”
“It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.”
“Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.”
“Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.”
“Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.”
“Iâ€™m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also arenâ€™t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and donâ€™t want to be around them.”

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