"I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame."

-- Doris Lessing

#Worry Quotes #Fame Quotes

“Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.”

Source : Facebook Post by Jada Pinkett Smith, www.facebook.com. June 21, 2013.
“Being a conservative union member is almost like being an actor in Hollywood: You don't dare say it, or you might be injured on the job, or you might be laid off, or your family might have something happen to them.”
“I've always had a really developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination. And those are the cornerstones of activism.”
“Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.”
“And I wear my sunglasses at night So I can so I can Keep track of the visions in my eyes”

Source : Song: Sunglasses at Night, Album: First Offense, 1983
“I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea.”
“Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.”
“There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.”

Source : FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Dec 20, 2010

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