"That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck."

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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Joan Leslie

#Availability Quotes #Luck Quotes #Awful Quotes

“And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.”
“Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.”
“A poem should not mean but be.”

Source : "Ars Poetica" l. 23 (1926)
“There's 7 billion, 46 million people on the planet”

Source : Song: Tiny Glowing Screens, Part 2, Album: Cardboard Castles, 2013
“Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.”
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

Source : "Flicker to Flame: Living with Purpose, Meaning, and Happiness". Book by Jeffrey Thompson Parker, October 2006.
“The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights, my mother and I.”

Source : Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.7, Hachette UK
“I've got to be first. ALL the time.”

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