"The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too."

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Source : Tim Powers (2011). “The Drawing of the Dark”, p.140, Del Rey

Tim Powers

#Wages Quotes #Lad Quotes

“I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.”
“If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If I'm not working, I don't know what to do.”
“Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?”
“There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.”
“I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.”
“I donâ€™t know if cortisone is good for you or not. But to take a shot every other ball game is more than I wanted to do and to walk around with a constant upset stomach because of the pills and to be high half the time during a ball game because youâ€™re taking painkillers, I donâ€™t want to have to do that.”
“That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.”

Source : "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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