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“Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.”
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“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
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“I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.”
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“The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera,”
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“For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.”
Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.208, Penguin
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“... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.”
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“And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?”
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“As time passes on I turn the next page To discover a new me while I continue to age. I may no longer be Who I was long ago But I still can matter - That much I know. With a new set of tools I have gathered from time - I keep looking forward To more mountains to climb. My best is not over As the skeptics might say - I just learn how to conquer In a much wiser way. So don't sell me short - I am not nearly done - I CAN STILL MATTER - I've only just begun.”
Source : Tom Krause, “I Can Still Matter”
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“A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.”
Source : Mary Cholmondeley (2016). “Diana Tempest”, p.81, Mary Cholmondeley
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“Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.”
