"There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things."

-- Betty Smith

#Country Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Father Quotes

“If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?”

Source : "Inside the Actors Studio", 2009.
“I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.”
“The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.”
“The facts are facts and records are records.”
“We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.”
“What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.”

Source : Reynolds Price (1994). “A Whole New Life”, p.76, Simon and Schuster
“Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.”
“I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.”

Source : "Happy Endings' Zachary Knighton talks comedy and T-shirts". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. April 4, 2012.

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