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“Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more.”
Source : Carter Ratcliff (1982). “John Singer Sargent”, Abbeville Pr
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“There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.”
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“Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.”
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“When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.”
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“I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.”
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“My daughter is reading various Young Adult vampire stuff, and I ask her, "Is there even a bad vampire in the story?" There's always a good vampire now, but do any of them sleep in coffins? And I would bring her down to my library and say, "Here's every classic vampire literature. There are coffins, there's this, there's that," you know? "When you get to the YA stuff, you may try some of this stuff just to see where it came from."”
Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
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“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.”
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“We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.”
Source : Kwame Nkrumah, Samuel Obeng (1997). “Selected speeches of Kwame Nkrumah”, Afram Pubns Ghana Ltd
