"I was recently voted best standup never to win a major."

-- Andy Kindler

#Winning Quotes #Majors Quotes

“We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.”

Source : Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “A Death in The Life”, p.174, Open Road Media
“There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.”
“Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.”

Source : "The politics of fiction". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.
“Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone.”
“I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.”
“We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God.”

Source : Maria Monk (1851). “The Character of a Convent: Displayed in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk ; Being a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal ; to which is Added Confirmatory Notes and Affidavits Whereby Maria Monk's Disclosures are Most Fully Proved, and the Hideous Nature of the Conventual System are Exposed”, p.39
“When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.”
“Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.”

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