"I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life."

-- Don McLean

#Fun Quotes #Real Quotes #Teenager Quotes

“You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.”
“Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.”
“Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.”
“But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.”
“when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.”
“What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff?”

Source : Robert C. Atkins (1972). “Dr. Atkins' diet revolution; the high calorie way to stay thin forever”
“Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These, too, are nets. Above all, resist the fear of failure. Yes, you will make mistakes. But they will be your mistakes, not someone else's. And you will survive them, and you will know yourself better for having made them, and you will be a fuller and a stronger person.”

Source : "What Are You Going to Do With That?". Essay adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May 2010, www.chronicle.com. October 03, 2010.

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