"Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'"

-- Albert Brooks

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“It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.”
“In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.”
“Jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew.”

Source : "Mario Balotelli investigated by FA over controversial Instagram post" by Andy Hunter, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2014.
“The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.”
“Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.”

Source : Sherwood Eddy (1934). “A Pilgrimage of Ideas: Or, The Re-education of Sherwood Eddy”
“Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.”
“All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'”
“While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit.”

Source : Louise Beebe Wilder (1997). “What Happens in My Garden”, Hartley & Marks

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