"I will choose to do what I can fabulously"

-- Clinton Kelly

“I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.”
“There is no worse death than the end of hope.”
“I found a guy in the Bronx who had an old plywood Kay bass that he wanted $75 for. He held it for me, and I gave him a few dollars every time I could scrape some extra money together. Meanwhile I borrowed or rented basses for jam sessions and paying jobs. It was a great thrill when I finally took possession of my Kay.”
“The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (1900). “A Chambermaid's Diary”
“It is not that we are short of time....It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A time revolution..is the fastest way to make a giant leap in both happiness and effectiveness.”
“Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.”
“I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.”

Source : Frances Parkinson Keyes (1972). “All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.”

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