You`d be a fool and an unwise man to say never. I haven`t as yet had a gay relationship – not since school anyway – but I`d never say never. That would just be foolish. I think the more of a big deal we make out of that stuff, the harder it is for people to act how their heart wants them to act.
Gay (“Rome” star James Purefoy never says never…) [2006]Posted by Ampakine Anyone who went to an English [private] school in the 1970s will have had some kind of a gay experience. You bang 500 adolescent hormonal boys together at exactly the time when they`re exploring their sexuality, and don`t be surprised if some shenanigan comes out of it.
Gay (“Rome” star James Purefoy never says never…) [2006]Posted by Ampakine If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you`re not happy then that`s probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it. I`m trying to work out what I have been typecast as. I don`t know – what do you think it is?
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Posted by wdwdemo In the July 4, 2001 Newswatch, Wild West End column: “There was one woman whom I was absolutely infatuated with, but she had no interest in me. I was very young at the time and thought the way to prove my love was to write a book for her. It ran for pages and pages and I had it bound in leather to give to her. But it still didn`t have the desired effect. I can`t remember what the book was called or even what it was about. It doesn`t matter now.”
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Posted by wdwdemo Ah, nudity. That`s quite a recent thing, the nudity. It`s an early autumn of my career. (Jan. 2006)
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Posted by wdwdemo The age of chivalry isn`t dead, is it? It doesn`t even have to be a man or a woman that you could be chivalrous to. If somebody`s in trouble you give them a hand.
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Posted by wdwdemo The first job I ever did was Equus on stage, as the boy, and I was 17, and we opened the show with me naked in the spotlight being examined by doctors. That was my entrance to the stage, so anything after that was easy. Also, for some reason, nudity was never shameful, it was never brought up in my household when I was a kid, there was no `dirty, dirty sex`. It`s not like we all ran around naked in some horrid 70s nightmare, it just was never an issue, and because it was never an issue I`ve never been embarrassed, I guess.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ~Phyllis Theroux

Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ~Jacques Barzun, God’s Country and Mine, 1954

I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
~Amy Lowell, “The Letter”

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ~Lord Byron

What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. ~Author Unknown

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. ~Elizabeth Drew

And none will hear the postman’s knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
~W.H. Auden

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. ~William Shenstone

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call. ~Liz Carpenter

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. ~John Donne

Or don’t you like to write letters. I do because it’s such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you’ve done something. ~Ernest Hemingway

A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment! ~Douglas Jerrold, The Postman’s Budget

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. ~Svetlana Alliluyeva

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. ~Sydney Smith

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ~Emily Dickinson

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. ~Sigmund Freud

Sergei Bubka (Ukrainian pole vaulter, 1988 Summer Olympics)
The Olympics are always a special competition. It is very difficult to predict what will happen.

Noureddine Morceli (Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on his 2000m World record)
It was an extraterrestrial performance. It is very special to go below 4:50, but I believe I can do better.

Daley Thompson (British decathlete, 2-time winner at the Olympics):
When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.

Mitch Gaylord (American gymnast, 1984 Summer Olympics)
The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

Noureddine Morceli (Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics)
I believe in God. He is the secret of my success. He gives people talent.

Mary Lou Retton (American gymnast, 1984 Summer Olympics)
There can be distractions, but if you’re isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

Pierre de Coubertin (founder of modern Olympic Games)
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Cathy Freeman (Australian athlete, 2000 Summer Olympics)
The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.

Peter Snell (New Zealand athlete, 3-time winner of Olympics)
I think I’ve seen the fastest miler ever. His name is Morceli.

Scott Hamilton (American figure skater, 1984 Winter Olympics)
The Olympics in ’80 was phenomenal. It was my favorite memory of all competitive events, because it was brand new and it was exciting

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell. ~Lance Armstrong

Cancer is a word, not a sentence. ~John Diamond

My cancer scare changed my life. I’m grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life. ~Olivia Newton-John

Bill Hemmer: “You said cancer changes your life, and oftentimes for the better.”
Joel Siegel: “Yes…. Gilda Radner… said this in her book. What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important. I mean, I don’t sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It’s not worth it…. And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it’s all small stuff. And what Gilda said is, if it weren’t for the downside, everyone would want to have it. But there is a downside.”
~American Morning, CNN, 13 June 2003

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. ~John Cheever, letter to Philip Roth, 10 May 1982, published in The Letters of John Cheever, 1989, concerning his cancer and its treatment

During chemo, you’re more tired than you’ve ever been. It’s like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you’re out. You don’t know how you’ll answer the door when your groceries are delivered. But you also find that you’re stronger than you’ve ever been. You’re clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it’s instantaneous. ~Melissa Bank

We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. ~Gilbert Adair, “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories, 1986

Women agonize… over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend’s breast. ~Martha Weinman Lear, Heartsounds

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.
George Washington

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington

Dum spiro, spero (Latin), “While I breath, I hope”.
— Latin Proverb

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.
— Proverb

He who has never hoped can never despair.
— George Bernard Shaw

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
— Anne Lamott

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
— Augustine of Hippo

Hope is a higher heart frequency, and as you begin to re-connect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. Listening to the still small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality.
— Sara Paddison

Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, “Yes,” and hope will reappear.
— Monroe Forester

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
— George Iles

Hope is knowing that people, like kites, are made to be lifted up.
— Author Unknown

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
— Lin Yutang

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
— Author Unknown

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
— French Proverb

Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn’t come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.
— Josh Hartnett

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.
— Author Unknown