"The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own"

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Source : Song: Black Rose

Billy Joe Shaver

#Devil Quotes #Done Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.”
“Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.”
“The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.”
“The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material.”
“Done is better than perfect.”

Source : Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.139, Knopf
“[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.”
“I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.”

Source : Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.173, A&C Black
“I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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