"I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent."

-- Marguerite Young

#Real Quotes #Talent Quotes #Devotion Quotes

“I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.”
“All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.”
“I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.”
“You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
“That's not to say I came from the streets or anything - most of the time I was on my grandmother's back porch. I was kept in a constant state of amniotic fluid.”
“I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.”
“Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.”

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