"If you're not invited to the party, throw your own."

-- Diahann Carroll

“I'm just going to keep doing comedy because I don't know what else to do. I have no other applicable skills.”

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“[My father] was always upset that my mother didn't want to live in New York. Because he said he wanted to live in a hotel and not have to mow the lawn and all that. In other words, he never liked sports clothes, he always liked to be dressed up formally, 24/7. And he drove big cars and, you know, just loved to act the banker.”
“If we make God our heart's delight, we shall have our heart's desire.”
“If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have impact. No death should be like nose blowing. Death is important enough that it should affect the person who causes it.”

Source : Alexei Panshin, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon (1968). “Rite of passage”
“Resilience is going to pay off.”
“I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.”
“Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move.”
“Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.”

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