"Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary"

-- Julian Barnes

#Powerful Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Sole Quotes

“As a performer, I want to hit the last row of the arena. I want to make big moves. I'm a spaz, naturally.”

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“The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.”
“Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying”
“You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation are salient features but I also strive to make music that is peaceful. I want to make music that aids world peace in the same way that the people who shaped my development did.”
“Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation.”
“That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.”
“By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.”
“Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2007). “Dairy Queen”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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