"Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players."

-- Bernard Baruch

#Player Quotes #Doors Quotes #Luck Quotes

“Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.”
“There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and how it bounces across the skin. The way that blues and purples come into play. In India and Sri Lanka, it was no different. It became a moment in which I had an opportunity to learn as a painter how to create the body in full form, and that's a very material and aesthetic thing. This is not conceptual. It's all an abstraction.”
“Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.”
“People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.”
“Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.”
“Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.”
“For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.”

Source : Jen Lancaster (2009). “Pretty in Plaid: A Life, A Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending,Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase”, p.167, Penguin
“Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.”

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