"My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station."

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Source : "Mireille Enos Is Killing Us". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. April 15, 2012.

Mireille Enos

#Dad Quotes #Guy Quotes #Sensible Quotes

“How do I work? I grope.”
“Oh yeah - you have to write every day. Or every weekday. Because writing is a job. It's not eureka moments over and over. It's grueling work, panning for gold. You just keep at it and eventually you get a few grains. Or flakes. Or whatever gold looks like in rivers. Or maybe it's like fishing. Who cares? You just have to do it every day because you never know which day is going to be your productive day.”
“At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?”

Source : "Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, Second Edition". Book edited by William H. McNeill, Jerry Bentley and David Christian, April 30, 2010.
“A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.”
“Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?”

Source : The Spectator, January 15, 1994.
“It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender”
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
“Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.”

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