"At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic."

-- Renee Fleming

#Mistake Quotes #Careers Quotes #People Quotes

“Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.”
“But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.”
“I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".”
“Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.”
“I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”
“Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.”
“Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.”
“You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!”

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