"In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like itâ€¦ Maybe I was irresponsible. But part of the pleasure of being alive is that I didnâ€™t take everything as seriously as one should."

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Source : "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

Saul Leiter

#Coffee Quotes #Successful Quotes #Order Quotes

“It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.”
“Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.”
“Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.”
“His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.”
“A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Itâ€™s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.”
“I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.”
“The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women”

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