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“Greatness is the reward for genius...only a few can be great, the rest are plain good.”
Source : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2001.
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“So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention... This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed.”
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“In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.”
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“You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.”
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“One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.”
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“L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.”
Source : "Chris O'Donnell: Whatever Blows Your Hair Back". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. March 1, 1996.
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“When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.”
Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.241, U of Nebraska Press
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“There's a phrase we live by in America: "In God We Trust". It's right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.”