"If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?"

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Source : "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

Cris Mazza

#Mean Quotes #Careers Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.”
“Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.”
“It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.”
“Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14.5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1.83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3.9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall.”
“Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.”

Source : George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.153, Courier Corporation
“I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat. The fish were not yet dead, so the man decided to ease their suffering by killing them swiftly. While he worked, the cold air made his eyes water. One of the wounded fish saw this and said to the other: "What a kind heart this fisherman has- see how he cries for us." The other fish replied: "Ignore his tears and watch what he is doing with his hands.”

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