"My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths."

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Source : "Character: Jacques Brel". "Nous les artistes: Jacques Brel", www.imdb.com. 1979.

Jacques Brel

#Lonely Quotes #Singers Quotes #You Like It Quotes

“I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.”
“Testing, we will never do enough of it.”
“I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested.”
“The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really.”
“I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.”
“If youâ€™re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No oneâ€™s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh)”
“Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.”

Source : Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “Self-Meditation: 3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity”, p.174, Workman Publishing
“In one way or another, every parent is curious what their children... what are they doing when we don't see?... What double lives are they leading? Is there something else?”

Source : "'The Dinner' Asks: What Will You Do To Protect Your Family?". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.capeandislands.org. February 18, 2013.

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