"I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities."

-- Martha Wainwright

#Skills Quotes #Careers Quotes #Long Quotes

“Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.”
“It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.”
“To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people”

Source : "The poetry of the Celtic races: and other studies".
“Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press
“Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.”
“We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.”

Source : "Stand and Fight" by Wayne LaPierre, dailycaller.com. February 13, 2013.
“I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.”
“I don't care how much people understand what it is that I'm doing, except if they're players in my ensemble or other ensembles. I just want people to be moved by the music. If you're not moved by the music, then everything else falls away. You're not interested in the text, you're not interested in how it was done, and you're not interested in interviewing the composer and all the rest of it.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

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