"Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”
“When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in a Kurt Weill work I am as nervous as a cat. A burden falls on my shoulders. I feel a crushing responsibility.”
“I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.”
“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, youve got it made.”

Source : "Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong". Book by Arthur Bloch, p. 47, 1980.
“Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way.”
“Toward the end of his life, GÃ¶del feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is one of the most extraordinary results in mathematics, or in any intellectual field in this century. If ever potential mental instability is detectable by genetic analysis, an embryo of someone with Kurt GÃ¶del's gifts might be aborted.”
“In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss”

Source : Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.216, Delacorte Press
“People who are successful should never forget that its 90 per cent luck. Youve got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - Blankety Blank, the talk show, when I was winning every award going.”

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