"I was building the plane while flying it in the first term,"

-- Kwame Kilpatrick

#Flying Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Building Quotes

“I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.”
“You can't change in your own power. If you feel overwhelmed by something bigger than you, let the one who is bigger than all things be the power you need in your weakness.”
“Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come his way have probably been so described by their authors.”
“Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.”
“Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work.”
“The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.”
“I think it's good to tell the fans "this movie's going to lead to that, and that will lead to..."”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.”

Source : "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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