"When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life."

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Source : "Louis de Bernières: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

Louis de Bernieres

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“Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.”
“For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.”
“Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.”
“Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.”
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

Source : Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.
“Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don't you stay home?”

Source : The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.”
“I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.”

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