"I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way."

-- Mirah

#Hard Times Quotes #Way Quotes #Horns Quotes

“I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.”
“Reason gains all people by compelling none.”

Source : "Alzira: A Tragedy". Play by Aaron Hill, 1736.
“I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.”
“My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great way of not doing it.”
“No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life.”
“He is afraid of you, so he hates you. It would be wrong to hurt him again. It would be like beating a dog after it has loosed it's bladder. The spirit is already broken in him.”

Source : Conn Iggulden (2013). “Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection”, p.149, HarperCollins UK
“....I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this country (the South) are to legislate for us - when our dearest rights are to be left, in the hands of those, whose advantage it will be to infringe them.”
“What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.”

Source : Robert W. Bly (2003). “Careers for Writers & Others Who Have a Way with Words”, McGraw Hill Professional

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