"envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it."

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Source : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”

Ada Leverson

#Envy Quotes #Merit Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.”
“You know I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you believe the good stuff that people say then you have to believe the bad stuff and then you allow yourself to be on a roller coaster of what other people think. So I think you try to find the good in the bad and the bad in the good and balance yourself and stay on an even keel.”
“To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope and finishes off his opponent - that's what a comic has.”
“If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.”
“Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.”
“Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.”
“He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.”

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