I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running … - Winston Churchill

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I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?

Winston Churchill

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

Adversity, Flight, Petrol, Running, Safe

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It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

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When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

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If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

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