#iona

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide. ↗

— Steve Waugh

#everyone #hard #hard life #hide #life

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#character #complex #compromised #contradictions #contradictory

Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit. ↗

— Mark Webber

#formula #formula one #one-dimensional #terms #very

It’s not the job of the child to make the parent happy. It’s the job of the parent to take care of their own happiness. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that. ↗

— Max Weinberg

#around #artist #bruce #bruce springsteen #committed

If you let your heart rule you, you’ll have a good ruler by which to measure things. This can be called wisdom. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

We combine our three packs of pasta for dinner – pesto. We tip the dried stuff into a pan, add water and simmer. We try it, looking at each other with disbelief as it hits the tastebuds. ‘It’s pesto, Jim, but not as we know it,’ I say. ‘Fascinating,’ says Lou, unsmiling humouring my Star Trek reference, while wincing at the foul food. (And what made me say that? Is there such a thing as a dad-joke vacuum that needs to be filled, even in the wild?) ↗

— Fiona Wood

#camping-food #dad-joke #dad-jokes #fiona-wood #food

Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally. ↗

— Bob Weinstein

#emotionally #fear #only #paralyze #prepare

For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#conversations #e-mail #engaged #facebook #few

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#completely #disapproval #get #happily #hurdles