"Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother."

-- Russell Baker

#Grandmother Quotes #Men Quotes #Self Quotes

“I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.”

Source : Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1889). “A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory”
“Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?”
“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
“Men of all lands and climes are brothers.”

Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1996). “ספר חמשה חומשי תורה עם ההפטרות: נדפס על פי המסורה ומתורגם אנגלית”
“I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.”
“Novelists never have to footnote.”

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