"People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment."

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Source : TED Talks, www.cbsnews.com. April 19, 2015.

Maysoon Zayid

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Entertainment Quotes

“Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.”
“He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.”
“I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.”
“We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain and you think about it and it comes out somehow. You have an idea; you've heard a phrase, or you're angry, or something disturbs you, or something seems paradoxical to you, you explore that idea, much like a writer would explore maybe an idea through metaphor. Maybe artists use their vehicle to explore ideas, so I think the things that interest me are the kind of idea of continuous change and how nothing stays the same and it's always disintegrating into something more.”
“Music is like my security blanket.”
“I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.”
“[Adolf Hitler] tried to make people feel at ease, he made that effort.”
“Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”

Source : "Six Rules on How to Be Successful". Speech at the University of Southern California, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 15, 2009.

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