"Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?"

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Source : Sara Jeannette Duncan (2010). “The Imperialist”, p.231, New Canadian Library

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#People Quotes #Politician Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.”
“You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.”
“I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.”
“Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.”
“The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.”
“I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.”

Source : Interview with Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. November 20, 2006.
“If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.”

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