"Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?"

-- Leslie Fiedler

#Hands Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Sound Quotes

“Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be reconciled to the permanent imperfections of a corrupted world populated by fallen creatures.”
“I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that's just me. That's how I live my life.”
“I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.”
“Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.”

Source : Claire LaZebnik (2011). “Epic Fail”, p.7, Harper Collins
“Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.”
“I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.”
“I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'”
“One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.”

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