"When I first started doing stand-up, I would be so nervous that I would just binge drink really heavily right before my sets, and as you can imagine, that had its drawbacks. But now I'm a professional, so I pace myself throughout the day."

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Bonnie McFarlane

#Would Be Quotes #Pace Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.”
“Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.”
“These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.”
“As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.”
“I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.”
“Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.”
“It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives.”
“Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.”

Source : Uri Shulevitz (1997). “Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books”

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