"All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light."

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Source : Clive James (2009). “May Week Was In June”, p.204, Pan Macmillan

Clive James

#Light Quotes #Phrases Quotes #Turns Quotes

“I hope that Angela Merkel can become the chancellor of the rebuilding of Europe, in close cooperation with the role that I will play in the process.”
“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.”

Source : "Teacher and child". Book by Haim Ginott, 1972.
“For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.”
“In a certain way, acting is an extension of myself. What I really am, I am not able to put on paper. Everything is intuitive. The real me hasn't been seen yet and I don't think it ever will be. I'm always changing!”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Creativity's about ownership.”
“People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man does not drive, there is something wrong with him.”
“Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.”
“Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road.”

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