"To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties."

-- Marya Mannes

#Art Quotes #Successful Quotes #Skills Quotes

“The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.”

Source : "Ashes and Snow". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. March 05, 2005.
“If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.”
“Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.”
“Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January.”
“My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.”

Source : "Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2012.
“It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.”
“One of the great things about the longer you do a character, the more the writers start to understand your kind of character ticks and things that you like to do. The most exciting thing I think for a writer is when the characters just start speaking for themselves. You sit down at your keyboard and just stuff starts jumping out of their mouths. They just sort of wrote the scripts for themselves.”
“Hate is too strong of an emotion to waste on someone you donâ€™t like”

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