"As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved."

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Source : "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.

Robert Draper

#Rejection Quotes #Grind Quotes #Building Quotes

“IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?”
“The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people.”
“Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.”
“The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse.”
“Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.”
“Forget anything after, the 1986 Turbo cars really were rockets, and to handle them I really think you had to be a man”
“I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.”
“Out of the darkness came Mr Carsington's deep voice, cool and calm. " Pray don't trouble yourselves, gentlemen. It is merely a villain come to cut our throats, rob our stores and ravish our women. No need for alarm. Mrs Pembroke has the matter in hand.”

Source : Loretta Chase (2005). “Mr. Impossible”, p.194, Penguin

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