"Only in grammar can you be more than perfect."

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Source : William Safire (2011). “Watching My Language:: Adventures in the Word Trade”, p.383, Random House

William Safire

#Perfect Quotes #Grammar Quotes

“Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials”
“You're really playing against yourself. You have to learn what you can control and what you can't, and not let what you can't control affect your confidence.”
“Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?”
“I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.”
“The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.”

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“I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalismâ€”religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.”
“No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.”
“To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.”

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