"Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time."

-- Jules Renard

#Men Quotes #Ducks Quotes #Long Quotes

“All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.”
“I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.”
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
“I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer spirit. I profoundly love the profession, and I work on each film as if it were the first - and the last. Giving the best of myself. Many of the 'greats' ask their arranger to write their scores for them. Me, I write all alone, from the first note to the last. All.”
“A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.”
“While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.”

Source : "The enduring American press: texts of talks given by a panel of distinguished journalists and scholars at a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut". Book by The Hartford Courant, 1964.
“My fallen heart doesn't know. But I will put effort and pretend that I don't know.”

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