"As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce."

-- Clive James

#Opinion Quotes #Talent Quotes #Natural Quotes

“Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”
“An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.”
“The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being”
“To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.”
“I despise this weakness in myself--this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action...”

Source : Stef Penney (2008). “The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
“I sometimes think, would I drink the milk from the breast of a woman I don't know? No. So I think, why would I drink it from a cow?”
“Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.”
“India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.”

Source : Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.39, Penguin Books India

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