"Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment."

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Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “Offshore: A Novel”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Penelope Fitzgerald

#Moments Quotes #Duty Quotes

“Makeup can be pure fantasy--it can transform you into any kind of magical creature, whether that's a superhero or a retro Hollywood icon or just a more fun, fresher version of yourself. Looking like a stress-free, well-rested working mom? That's some kind of magic to me.”
“Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.”
“I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.”
“When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so that the story can't carry its own weight.”
“All that either of us has is right now and we should pay attention to that.”
“Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.”

Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.63, Green Dragon Books
“Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.”

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