"I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success."
"By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry."
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Source: Whom Does Kobe Bryant Represent?. Interview with Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. April 1, 2014.
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