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The Personal Quotes

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.
- Kathy Acker

Remember that every government service, every offer of government - financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom... In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such service.
- Ronald Reagan

And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?"
"They were looking only for gold his companion answered. They were seeking the treasure of their personal legend, without wanting actually to live out the personal legend.
- Paulo Coelho

They were looking only for gold,"his companion answered. "They were seeking the treasure of their Personal Legend, without wanting actually to live out the Personal Legend.
- Paulo Coelho

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.
- Madeleine Albright

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
- Samuel Alexander

Here's what the death knell for the personal computer will sound like: Mainly I use my phone/paid, but I still use my PC to write long e-mails and documents. Most people aren't there yet, but that's where we're headed
- Paul Allen

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.
- Aldrich Ames

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.
- Hermann Hesse

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
- Marcus Aurelius

con-tu-ber-nal(noun). One who occupies
the same tent; a tent-fellow, comrade.
The thought of Percy Prewitt as my contubernal causes me to break out in hives.
-From the personal dictionary of
Caroline Trent
- Julia Quinn

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.
- John Badham

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.
- James Baldwin

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
- James M Baldwin

I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.
- Jim Balsillie

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
- Cameron Crowe

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.
- Javier Bardem

The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.
- Glenn Beck

People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.
- Haruki Murakami

Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.
- Elizabeth Berkley

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.
- Ben Bernanke

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
- E M Forster

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.
- Brad Bird

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.
- Jacqueline Bisset

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
- Alain De Botton

When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter.
- Rick Bragg

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
- Marshall Mcluhan

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
- Barbara Bush

Sicarius had the personality of a particularly bland, pointy stick.
- Lindsay Buroker

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
- Albert Einstein

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
- Albert Einstein

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind
- Joseph Campbell

I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God."
"Then who are you?"
"The personal officer who hired God.
- Orson Scott Card

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
- Raymond Chandler

The man he was now, the personality his friends knew, had begun to grow strong during adolescence, during the years when he was always consciously or unconsciously conjugating the verb "to love"-- in society and solitude, with people, with books, with the sky and open country, in the lonesomeness of crowded city streets.
- Willa Cather

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
- Paul Cezanne

I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.
- Morris Chestnut

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
- Nadine Gordimer

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.
- Julian Clary

I know immediately that this is going to be one of the true historic moments of my life - that the personal and the historic are converging. I know people will ask, 'Where were you when you first heard?
- David Levithan

No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions
about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when our
appointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception.
- Joseph Conrad

The value of a sentence is the personality that utters't, for nothing new can be said by any man or woman.
- Joseph Conrad

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.
- Elvis Costello

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
- Quentin Crisp

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
- Quentin Crisp

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.
- William Daniels

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
- Rebecca Harding Davis

The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress.
- Don Delillo

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
- Mary Douglas

It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened out round her and made her presently say 'If I could lose myself here!' There were people, people in plenty, but, admirably, no personal question. It was immense, outside, the personal question; but she had blissfully left it outside....
- Henry James

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
- Martin Luther King Jr

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
- Martin Luther King Jr

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
- Larry Ellison

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
- Enya

When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich?
- Helen Fielding

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.
- Dietrich Fischerdieskau

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed...
He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

The worst of all was to be faced with the interrogation technique of Thirty Seconds. The interrogator would say something and you had to respond quickly, without once repeating yourself or using the personal pronoun. Very few dissidents could last the full thirty seconds, and a refusal to comply was taken as equal proof of dissidence.
- H M Forester

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.
- Dion Fortune

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.
- Jonathan Franzen

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
- Erich Fromm

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.
- Jim Garrison

What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.
- Temple Grandin

I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation, my run was often silent and empty; there were no increments, no arbitrary graduations reducing time to functional units. I abstracted and purified.
- Tom Robbins

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.
- Tom Robbins

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
- Harold H Greene

There are life events that can destroy the personality, which is a lot more fragile than most people imagine, constructed as it is from bits provided by others in the most haphazard way. People can be torn down to the core, "shattered," as the expression goes, and then they seek sleep. And dreams, which provide the ground for the construction of a new and more integrated self. Providing there's a core, and providing they're willing to do the work.
- Michael Gruber

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
- Marilyn Hacker

I've been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes... The personal interaction is not the same, and I'm not walking out of a store with a physical thing, so there's definitely an element that is lost, for sure.
- Colin Hanks

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
- M Esther Harding

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?
- Mary Hart

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
- Frank Herbert

How much vanity must be concealed not too effectively at that in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?
- Christopher Hitchens

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
- Hans Hofmann

He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.
- Nick Hornby

I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.
- Tony Hsieh

My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.
- Trevor Huddleston

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.
- Claudio Hummes

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
- Aldous Huxley

Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often starve themselves, socially, erotically, and, at last but not least, nutritionally, in order to let the grosser weeds die out, and make way for the growth of their inner garden.
- Lewis Hyde

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
- Laura Innes

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.
- Ll Cool J

The sight of a child...will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.
- C G Jung

Awards represent achievement, and to an extent they show more about who you are as a person than the personal items you picked out and purchased, because they show desire, ambition, goals, and accomplishment.
- Jarod Kintz

I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.
- Elena Kagan

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.
- Guy Kawasaki

In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.
- Timothy Keller

Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.
- Jurgen Klinsmann

To be well married you have to a penchant for the intricacies of intimacy and larval change..If the personality is a spider's web, you will want to know every thread...Pleasures no longer come to you, but there are pickings to be had if you can learn to scavenge for them" ("The Body")
- Hanif Kureishi

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.
- Alan Ladd

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
- Hedy Lamarr

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
- K D Lang

I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.
- Alan Lewis

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
- Ted Lindsay

If the empire were to collapse, I should personally feel extremely sad. I absolutely do not believe that the personal rule of Napoleon III has been corrupting and oppressive for France-but quite the contrary, it is demonstrably necessary, conciliatory, progressive, and generally intelligent and democratic in the best sense of the word.
- Franz Liszt

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.
- Rich Little

What is meant by this term, 'the heart'? According to the general scriptural usage of the term, the heart means the centre of the personality. It does not merely mean the seat of the affections and the emotions.
- D Martyn Lloyd Jones

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
- Latoya London

It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one's time of deep thought or light regard into the utterly self-absorbed and equally and abundantly outward-seeking shape of the personal essay -- a story comprised of found fact, of analyzed emotion, of fictive memory.
- Barry Lopez

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
- James Madison

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
- Maxwell Maltz

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
- John Mayall

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
- Bryant H Mcgill

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.
- Mark Messier

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
- Wentworth Miller

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.
- Iris Murdoch

Again and again as we discussed Lolita in that class, our discussions were colored by my students' hidden personal sorrows and joys. Like tearstains on a letter, these forays into the hidden and the personal shaded all our discussions of Nabokov. And more and more I thought of that butterfly; what linked us so closely was this perverse intimacy of victim and jailer.
- Azar Nafisi

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
- Wayne Newton

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.
- Bob Ney

They say the personal is political and it's certainly fair to say that, like her politics, Rebecca Epstein's kissing is radical, forthright and uncompromising.
- David Nicholls

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
- Anais Nin

I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.
- Jeremy Northam

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
- Joyce Carol Oates

If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.
- Parker J Palmer

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
- Nancy Pelosi

Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there.
- Rosamunde Pilcher

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
- Robert M Pirsig

Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.
- Mitchell Reiss

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.
- Caroline Rhea

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.
- Busta Rhymes

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.
- Eudora Welty

I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.
- Winthrop Rockefeller

sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.
- Jon Ronson

One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.
- Donald Rumsfeld

Dr. P. may therefore serve as a warning and parable -- of what happens to a science which eschews the judgmental, the particular, the personal, and becomes entirely abstract and computational.
- Oliver Sacks

But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who has made men and women in His own image that they have a unique dignity of life as human beings. Human life then is filled with dignity, and the state and humanistically oriented law have no right and no authority to take human life arbitrarily in the way it is being taken.
- Francis Schaeffer

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
- Richard Schickel

My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.
- Elizabeth Scott

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
- Georg Simmel

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
- Georg Simmel

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.
- Gene Simmons

Along with the atom, the personality of the Homo Sapiens has been splitting..
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.
- Erika Slezak

We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings.
- John W Snow

Ma, Kyle has the personality of a light switch. I don't have a crush on him. -Now, what exactly is that sentence supposed to mean? - I mean, he has two moods, and the presence of something that was created to go unnoticed throughout life. Like a light switch: on, off, there when you need it, forgettable when you don't.
- Anne Spollen

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
- Potter Stewart

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
- Potter Stewart

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
- John Strachan

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
- Allen Tate

For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.
- Steve Rasnic Tem

I could see that the almost mystical aura of this legendary surgeon -- the single-mindedness, the dedication, the skill -- was mere surface. The surgical persona was something he had crafter to protect himself. But what he had created was a prison. Anytime he strayed from the professional to the personal, he knew what to expect: pain.
- Abraham Verghese

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
- Derek Walcott

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.
- John Warnock

I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.
- Anthony Weiner

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.
- Harvey Weinstein

You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.
- Montel Williams

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
- Ricky Williams

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
- Elsie De Wolfe

For Christians it's always a love game... that He is love itself... Indeed, some have suggested that one way of understanding the Spirit is to see the Spirit as the personal love which the Father has for the Son and the Son for the Father.
- N T Wright

I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to.
- Jennifer Wyatt

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