Daily Dialogue — July 19, 2018

“A gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you’re not enough without one, you’ll never be enough with one.”

— Cool Runnings (1993), screenplay by Lynn Siefert and Tommy Swerdlow & Michael Goldberg, story by Lynn Siefert & Michael Ritchie

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Advice.

Trivia: According to Tommy Swerdlow, the only line in the film that he did not write was “Sanka, ya dead?”. That is the only line that came from the original version of the script.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Insightful advice about how seeking external validation is meaningless if you can’t validate yourself.

I couldn’t find a clip of the quote, so here is the inspirational ending of the movie beginning just after the Jamaican bobsled had crashed on their run.