"Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy."

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Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

Sheila Ballantyne

#Dry Quotes #Demand Quotes #Natural Quotes

“The morning stars sang together. And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how and wherein one star differed from another, and which was great and which was not. And still the morning stars sang together.”
“You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.”
“I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.”
“I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.”
“In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.”
“Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.”

Source : "Miller's own tale". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2003.
“If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.”

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

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