"you can do anything you set your mind to"

-- Benjamin Franklin

“There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.”
“Shopping turns me off.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can't always be a leading lady.”
“Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.”

Source : Jonathan BROOKS (Quaker, of Bristol.), Nicholas LING (1773). “Antiquity; or the Wise instructer. Being a collection of ... admonitions and sentences compendiously put together from an infinite variety of the most celebrated Christian and heathen writers, etc. The editor's dedication signed: Jonathan Brooks. A reprint, with minor alterations, of N. Ling's “Politeuphuia. Wits Commonwealth.””, p.197
“Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.”
“For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.”
“Take your time. Love is gonna come. Don't force it. Don't try to make it happen. Relax, take your time, and you'll know when it's there. My mom gave me that advice.”
“People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.”

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