"I'm glad I'm still in motion. I don't think of my past achievements. The most important thing is what I'm going to do tomorrow. I'm happy I did what I did. Thanks be to God."

-- Manu Dibango

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.”
“We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.”

Source : Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.110, Random House
“Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?”
“I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.
“That's the spirit, one part brave, three parts fool.”
“Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.”
“I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.”
“My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.”

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