"I have learned that all you give is all you get, so give it all you got."

-- Shirley Horn

#Giving Quotes #I Have Learned Quotes #Give It All You Got Quotes

“I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.”
“One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.”

Source : Matilde Serao (2017). “The Land of Cockayne (Matilde Serao) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.304, epubli
“Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the phrase just for the Happening, to have a catchy name for it; and then it immediately got taken up and brought into use. There's no defence against that - and really it's no bad thing.”
“For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.”
“A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.”
“I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me.”
“Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.”
“We all have to meet our match sometime or other.”

Source : Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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