"When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have to wait to be hired before I could do my art. That was huge. But you still have to figure out how to support your habit; it's rare and lucky when art pays the bills."

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Debra Dean

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more”
“Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.”

Source : "British imams to tackle radicals in mosques" by Alan Travis, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2005.
“Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print somehow winds up back in print. These days publishers like to put out-of-print books into e-book form, but I really wanted to do an update.”

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“I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.”
“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.”

Source : 365 Days and One More (1926) p. 277
“We donâ€™t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
“Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we eat today was bred from a wild, less edible ancestor. If artificial selection can work such profound changes in only ten or fifteen thousand years, what can natural selection do operating over billions of years? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of life.”

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