"for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him."

-- Jane Austen

#Men Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Disagreeable Quotes

“Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.”
“Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.”
“When you're growing up, you want to feel part of something.”
“You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy”
“If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.”

Source : Roland Allen (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.37, The Lutterworth Press
“I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system.”
“You have a long history of changes in diagnosis, from no touching to touching, to assessing acoustics and visuals. But visual is a problem, because if you're a living being you can't see beyond the surface of the skin. Now you don't have that problem. Laparoscopic surgery, inserting a camera into the body, is sometimes called "Nintendo surgery" - the best training for laparoscopic surgeries has actually been video games.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.”

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