"I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution."

-- Helene Hanff

#Writing Quotes #Television Quotes #Kind Quotes

“The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.”

Source : Charles Perrault (1942). “The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696”, p.4, Library of Alexandria
“Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.”
“The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, He will definitely come in!”
“Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.”
“When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'”
“The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.”
“The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.”
“I am not deep, but I am very wide.”

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