"The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality."

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Source : "10 of Hollywood's Most Memorable Commencement Speeches" by Courtney Idasetima, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 30, 2018.

Conan O'Brien

#Disappointment Quotes #Gains Quotes #Originality Quotes

“I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.”

Source : "Ed Westwick: 'I can be a real bitch - people know when to stay away'". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 3, 2009.
“So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said 'no, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.”

Source : "Staying on the Cutting Edge". Interview with Sam Varghese, www.theage.com.au. October 08, 2004.
“Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was trueâ€”life wasnâ€™t supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasnâ€™t some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.”
“You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.”
“The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.”

Source : Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.51, Hachette UK
“Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.”
“Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body between between two points, not the most direct. Fly fishing is to fishing as ballet is to walking.”
“Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of art can be based on very simple ideas, but it's all in the making, isn't it? It's in the facture.”

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