"If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well."

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Source : Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.263, Bethany House

Lawana Blackwell

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“I don't want to take shots at professional actors, because obviously the great ones are great. But I do think that given the kind of stories I've been telling in my films, it's hard for me to imagine how professional actors would have done better. And it's easy for me to imagine how they would have done worse. Because I think a lot of what an actor is trained to do and a lot of what an actor's instincts point toward is clarification, is always making it clear what's happening in the story, how the character fits into the scene, what the character wants.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.”
“There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen”
“True browsing means that we discover shelves and subjects that we could not have anticipated when we started. And the books we read introduce us to other books, as if we are at a magnificent party of the mind, being ever welcomed by new friends to join in the conversation.”
“Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.
“Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.”
“By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on”
“It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.”

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