"If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get an amanuensis who will write for you."

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Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

Richard Lewontin

#Ambition Quotes #Writing Quotes #Frustrated Quotes

“Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.”
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
“That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.”
“I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.”
“When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.”
“Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that weâ€™ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.â€ â€œHeâ€™s not dead; just very tired.”
“Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but...”

Source : Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet
“I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.”

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