"The great people I've met always have time for the niceties."

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Mercedes McCambridge

#People Quotes #Great People Quotes #Mets Quotes

“The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.”
“I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.”
“I don't know what's wrong with me. When I was a girl they had this aviary in one of my foster homes and I'd go in when no one was looking and put out watermelon rinds to feed the flies. There were all these flies that would have starved if I hadn't, and I'm not even wild about flies. They say it makes you a gentler person if you don't eat meat. But wasn't Hitler a vegetarian?”
“Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”
“During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.”
“As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.”
“The American Dream and the American Way are terms which refer to the dreams and ideals of generations of Americans. There is much debate over exactly which dreams and ideals these are, and the term is often used ironically.”
“No one can give you magickal powers. You have to earn them. There is only one way to do this. Practice, practice, practice!”

Source : Donald Michael Kraig (2010). “Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts”, p.7, Llewellyn Worldwide

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