"My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window."

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Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.24, Random House

Gail Caldwell

#Children Quotes #Reading Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesnâ€™t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build - the thing customers want and will pay for - as quickly as possible.”

Source : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.20, Crown Business
“Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.”
“Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.”
“To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.”
“Everyone fears rejection.”
“We focus a lot on the quality of experience, speed, reliability. Itâ€™s not sexy from a lot of peopleâ€™s perspective, itâ€™s not glitzy in the feature set, but itâ€™s what people come to rely on.”
“I like to act. I guess letting what you love be what you do is key. I've worked very hard for that to be the case, probably because I'm very lazy and I only want to do things that are fun and I run away from anything that feels like work... Acting for me is like lunch at school... you're just in a playground where you get to pretend and play.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am still so proud to have been a part of something that introduced theater to so many people who weren't exposed to it before. We took Broadway and put it in peoples' living rooms once a week for two seasons. People still come up to me in the street and say, 'I never went to theater before I saw "Smash.'" That's the greatest compliment.”

Source : "Megan Hilty on motherhood, ‘Smash’ and returning to Broadway". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.apnews.com. May 21, 2015.

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