"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."

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Source : "The Stars My Destination". Book by Alfred Bester (Chapter 16), 1957.

Alfred Bester

#Moving Quotes #Doubt Quotes #World Quotes

“Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.”
“We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?”
“When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.
“Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.”
“The longer we delay, the more we will pay.”
“You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2007). “The Man With the Golden Torc”, p.196, Penguin
“I kind of shy away from that idea of being an actress because it seems to me to be such a clichÃ©. Also, if you want to be a serious actress, then it's quite difficult to make that transition without being the blond bimbo in the opening credits. Maybe I'm being idealistic about acting and the idea that they would hire people purely based on their talent and not on their looks. But I don't know if I would be a very talented actress anyway.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.”

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