"As far as I can see, in this world, youâ€™re a fool for not using whatever gifts youâ€™re given. Itâ€™s not as though you lied or cheated or stole to get Howard Marlowe as your father. Thatâ€™s who he is; thatâ€™s who you are. You got dealt a bad card when you were bittenâ€”so use one of the better cards you have in your hand to make up for it."

-- Claudia Gray

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“It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.”
“I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.”
“You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.”

Source : Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”, Bantam
“They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.”

Source : Iris Johansen (2003). “Dead Aim”, p.186, Bantam
“Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing,”
“Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.”

Source : John Hancock's Boston Massacre Oration, law2.umkc.edu. March 5, 1774.
“There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.”
“I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.”

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