"Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp."

“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist”

“I immediately felt better about killing him. I’ve never known a Trevor who wasn’t a total douchebag. It’s just one of those names that goes so nicely with selfish, arrogant, malicious behavior—and really, what did I know about this guy? Nothing, except that his name was Trevor and he’d been nabbed in the midst of breaking-and-entering. That was plenty.”

Source : Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.46, Spectra

“Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work.”

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“I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things...”

“I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.”

“I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.”

“I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?”

“I don't wanna get rich - just live good.”

Source : From a 1955 bio sheet; reproduced in liner notes, "The Patsy Cline Collection" album, MCA Nashville Records, 1992.