"They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway."

-- Malachy McCourt

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“The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.”

Source : Aubrey Menen (2010). “Classic Aubrey Menen: Complete and Unabridged”, p.691, Penguin UK
“Every educated person is a future enemy.”
“People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.”
“Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.”
“I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.”
“Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.”

Source : Of Australia. The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (published 1859),'A Land of Plenty'.
“I told Hugh Hefner, "I have this crazy boyfriend." And Hef was like, "You're not going anywhere with a crazy boyfriend," and so he put me in a mansion in Bel-Air with an opera singing Chinese maid, and I was driving a Bentley, and a friend of mine came by and was like, "What is going on? Why are you living in this mansion?" And I was like, "Isn't this what happens when people move to LA?”
“I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on Sunset Boulevard and a woman who was a theatrical agent drove by and saw me and jumped out of the car and ran up and handed me her card. I had no idea this happens or would happen and I didn't know what to expect out of it. And my brother said alright you better call her and I said alright, why not? So that's pretty much how we got our first agent and then we started taking acting classes.”

Source : Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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