"We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child."

-- James Agee

#Summer Quotes #Children Quotes #June Quotes

“I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!'”
“I've been very blessed, I think, or what do you call it... mmm... lucky to get at this stage what I have. It's not like I've come from acting school and done work at an academy or something. I feel I've been given a very huge chance and opportunity.”
“All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.”
“Every endeavour pursued with passion produces a successful outcome, regardless of the result. For it is not about winning or losing â€“ rather, the effort put forth in producing the outcome.”

Source : "Secret to success: practice, not talent" by Matthew Syed, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2011.
“...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.”
“The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.”
“A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.”

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