"I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise."

-- Norman Lock

#Men Quotes #Giving Quotes #Ambitious Quotes

“When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.”
“Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.”
“I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.”
“Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.”
“My family isn't posh; they're musicians.”
“Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.”
“Good luck and good timing are the same thing.”
“I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.”

Source : Josephine Jacobsen (1997). “The instant of knowing: lectures, criticism, and occasional prose”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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