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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.”
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“I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.”
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“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
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“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
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“Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing,”
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“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.
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“There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.”
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“I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.”