What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

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Recorded Matthew Modine said elsewhere, not written here
That we are all no more and no less than a single thread in a gigantic web of life. What we do and how we behave has repercussions for the entire web.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 source ↗

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Ed Harris American actor and director
Don't let MGM distribute a film you care about.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗

Clive James Critic, essayist, poet and broadcaster
I think I actually wrote it in one of my poems is that my decline has been the making of me - I forget how I put it. Yeah, simply more reflective. I haven't got the excuse of moving forward just on impulse anymore, which I did, I think, for a long, long time.

Recorded Philip Williams, 7.30, ABC, ABC News, 20 August 2015 source ↗

Michael Flatley American step dancer
You’re going to come up against brick walls in life. You’ve got to go over them, under them, around them, or crash through them, but somehow or other you’ve got to get to the other side.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2024 source ↗

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