"Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril."

-- John Creasey

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“One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.”
“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.”
“I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.”
“Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.”
“I remember once I went to go see a movie, and in front of me in line there was a little boy who looked so eager to see it, like it was Christmas morning. When he got to the ticket booth it turned out there was only one ticket left; the manager was there and wanted to give it to me instead since I was famous. That's when I knew I'd hit it big.”
“There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards.”
“A universal beauty clothes the world, And one heart seems to beat for all mankind!”

Source : Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.147
“Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend Americaâ€™s beauty -- from the oil spillers, the clear-cutters and the mountaintop removers. Deep patriots don't just visit the Statue of Liberty and send a postcard home to grandma. We defend the principles upon which that great monument was founded -- 'give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'”

Source : Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.228, Nation Books

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