What You're Doing Is Putting Into Professional Play The Way That You Relate To Other People, The Way That You Analyze And Relate To A Written Text, The Way That You Would Persuade Anybody To Do Anything. It Has To Do With Listening, With Humility And A Sense Of Yourself. - SearchQuotes

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What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

Trevor Nunn

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