"I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career."

-- Marsha Norman

#Writing Quotes #Careers Quotes #Painful Quotes

“While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.”
“I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
“That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.”
“Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.”

Source : "Mohammad Ali Jinnah : A Political Study" by M. H. Saiyid, (p. 9), 1962.
“What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.”

Source : "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.
“Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.”
“On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.”
“Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.”

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