"When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years; when I was 40, nobody wanted me; I couldn't get a job."

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Source : "'Gandhi' Is Winner Of Eight Academy Awards" by Aljean Harmetz, www.nytimes.com. April 12, 1983.

Mickey Rooney

#Stars Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Two Quotes

“I was different from most young conductors today.”
“I dream a dream that dreams back at me”
“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”

Source : Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.125, New Directions Publishing
“I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.”
“It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.”
“The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.”
“Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.”

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