"Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls."

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Carly Simon

#War Quotes #Cities Quotes #Long Quotes

“As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.”
“I don't think I ever relinquish a person I have known, and surely not my fictional characters. I see them, I hear them, with a clarity that I would call hallucinatory if hallucination didn't mean something else ... A character whom we create can never die, any more than a friend can die ... Through [my characters] I've lived many parallel lives.”
“Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.”
“A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.”
“. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.”

Source : "The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon, the Naturalist". Book by Robert Buchanan, on a meeting with a young artist, Mr. J. B. Kidd, Ch. X, p. 140, 1868.
“The only person thats gonna hold you back is yourself”
“I'm not a god, I'm just a simple guy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.”

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