"Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it."

-- Don King

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“I write to be the characters that I am not.”
“Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.”
“I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.”
“McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled,”

Source : Speech in Wisconsin, 1952, in Richard Rovere Senator Joe McCarthy (1973) p. 8
“One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love; and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life.”
“Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.”
“While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.”
“Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.”

Source : "Q&A: BANKS On Her Burgeoning Success, Debut Album, And Giving Her Phone Number Out To The Entire World". Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.stereogum.com. February 4, 2014.

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