Quotes
Authors
Margaret Sullavan

"I still hate making pictures! And I don't like Hollywood any better. I detest the limelight and love simplicity, and in Hollywood the only thing that matters is the hullabaloo of fame. If Hollywood will let me alone to find my way without forcing me and rushing me into things, I probably will change my feelings about it. But at present Hollywood seems utterly horrible and interfering and consuming. Which is why I want to leave it as soon as I am able."

-- Margaret Sullavan

#Hate Quotes #Rushing Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“There is always room for at least two truths.”
“Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.”
“Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.”
“Yesterday's success belongs to yesterday.”
“His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a quiet sea. True that at times his head, because of his youth, looked scraggy, even his body sometimes looked scraggy, but suddenly for some reason like the change of light, or of mood, he looked his potential. This was going to be a champion cat.”
“I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults, who, at best, know only a fraction of what they say. The reason is simply that children know everything with their whole beings, while we know it only with our heads.”

Source : Jacques Lusseyran (2014). “And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II”, p.7, New World Library
“When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.”
“Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare”

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