"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."

-- Oscar Wilde

#History Quotes #Duty Quotes

“You may just miss an awesome ride if you only look at happiness as a destination.”
“I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.”
“As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.”
“I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quoâ€¦ to give a voice to the people the major candidates were ignoring. What I hope most is that now there will be others who will feel themselves as capable of running for high political office as any wealthy, good-looking white male.”

Source : "The Good Fight". Book by Shirley Chisholm, 1973.
“You drive the car, you don't carry it.”
“As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.”
“I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.”
“I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.”

Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 28, 2008.

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