"I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works."

-- Camille Claudel

#Successful Quotes #Effort Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.”
“I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.”
“To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.”
“Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.”

Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books
“I wish I could free myself from making music that has a dancefloor-function, or at least try to focus more on all the other elements in music.”

Source : Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.
“I'm not really a Spider-Man fan. I'm more of a Batman guy.”
“Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.”
“If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy in charge. That's a really good social status indicator.”

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