"People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all."

-- Petra Haden

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.”
“I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.”
“It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's also confidence - you have to be confident in order to try things - and they fight each other all the time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.”
“The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.”
“You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.”
“Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.”
“One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature.”

Source : William Henry Fox Talbot (1992). “Henry Fox Talbot: Selected Texts and Bibliography”

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