"High birth is an accident, not a virtue."

-- Pietro Metastasio

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“Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.”
“Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about”

Source : Salvatore Ferragamo, Victoria and Albert Museum (1987). “Salvatore Ferragamo, the art of the shoe, 1927-1960”
“I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.”
“Writing New People I was thinking a lot about the era that I came of age - the 90's. Brooklyn, in particular, this moment when I lived there. The sense of possibility. I was also trying to find a way to write about Jonestown. I had read about it a lot and I had the sense that the story could really start to drive one over the edge.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.”
“Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years. In less than that. Land is going up every day.”

Source : Sam Shepard (1976). “Curse of the Starving Class: A Play in Three Acts”, p.16, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“When I write a film, there's a particular thing I am wrestling with and the question or concern I'm dealing with has to be big enough for me to dedicate a year or two of my life. If the question isn't big enough, or rich enough, I'll lose interest.”
“I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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