"I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Carrie Preston

#Beach Quotes #Lying Quotes #Busy Quotes

“There's no abiding success without commitment.”
“I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.”

Source : Marc Reisner (1993). “Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition”, p.14, Penguin
“I think we have to be careful saying what we will never do, because what we do is we limit what God has for us by saying what we will never ever do. A lot of times, we miss the right companion, job, or opportunity because we say we won't ever.”
“From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.140, Octagon Press Ltd
“Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.”

Source : Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.196, Simon and Schuster
“The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.”
“In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. Poetry urges us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.”
“[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.137, Wave Books

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