"People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male"

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Source : "'I am just a lucky nerd': Jon Hamm on why he can't believe he got the part of Mad Men's Don Draper" by David Wigg, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 4, 2011.

Jon Hamm

#Powerful Quotes #White Quotes #People Quotes

“Correct your mistake as soon as you have found it.”
“It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiÃ¦ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.”
“I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.”

Source : Vanity Fair, August 2006.
“I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.”
“I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.”
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”

Source : Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.36, Hamilton Books
“You can't change the feeling but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two”

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