"So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different."

-- Jackie Cooper

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“To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king!”
“The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.”
“Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.”
“There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.”
“I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.”

Source : "Petraeus Tells White House There's Much Work to be Done" By Justin Fishel, www.foxnews.com. December 7, 2010.
“And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?”
“For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.”
“You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.”

Source : Michael Dibdin (2008). “Medusa”, p.187, Faber & Faber

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