"I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying."

-- Woody Allen

#Death Quotes #Suicide Quotes #Dying Quotes

“...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.”
“When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women... When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control pills with high dosages of hormones that were later found to be unnecessarily high, they were attacked for not caring about women enough to do the necessary tests.”
“You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.”
“I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.”
“Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.”
“Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.”
“I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes”
“We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.”

Source : Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky (2000). “The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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