"It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly."

-- Olive Schreiner

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“A gentleman never talks about his tailor.”
“Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie”
“The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.”
“Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after itâ€™s all over.”

Source : Nevil Shute (2010). “Requiem for a Wren”, p.246, Random House
“The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.”

Source : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.134, Zola Books
“You can want success all you want, but to get it, you canâ€™t falter. You canâ€™t slip. You canâ€™t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.”
“A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working”
“The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.”

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