"Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all."

-- Paula McLain

#Real Quotes #Artist Quotes #Sweat Quotes

“I really like triples. You hardly ever see me stop at second. My goal is third and that's where I'm headed.”
“Karen Handel has run a 100 percent negative campaign.”
“I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.”
“The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.”
“A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.”

Source : Machado de Assis, Gregory Rabassa (1998). “The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel”, p.185, Oxford University Press, USA
“As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well.”
“Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's (Coltrane) to speak in Turkish.”
“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”

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