#actual

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors. ↗

— John Sweeney

#based #cup #get #merits #people

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#actual #alexander #back #been #camera

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#actually #always #choice #choose #every

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#am #good #i #i am #i write

I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#again #back #cafe #day #devastating

I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#achieved #actually #bad #because #bit

I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the game and that was a big thrill. When you're in Madden, you've made it, baby. ↗

— Michael Strahan

#baby #back #because #big #first

I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities. ↗

— George Strait

#actually #any #band #began #clubs

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life. ↗

— Mark Strand

#actual life #course #externals #facts #his

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out. ↗

— David Strathairn

#laid #legend #like #live #lots