"I am no more humble than my talents require."

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Source : "Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past". Book edited by Carol A. Dingle, 2003.

Oscar Levant

#Humble Quotes #Talent Quotes

“Reserved as he [Confucius] was about the supernatural, he was not without it; somewhere in the universe there was a power that was on the side of right.”
“A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.”
“One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do.”
“America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.”
“If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.”

Source : "The Darius McCrary Interview - The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.
“I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.”
“There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.”

Source : Interview with Jerry Hopkins in "Rolling Stone" Magazine No. 20, October 26, 1968.
“You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it.”

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