"It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true."

-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Work Quotes #Mistake Quotes #People Quotes

“From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.”
“a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.”
“I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal”
“Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?”
“In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors”
“I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.”
“Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.”
“The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (1989). “Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959”, Gateway Books

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