"I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time."

-- Lord Mountbatten

#Jobs Quotes #Long Quotes #Born Quotes

“I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.”
“The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.”
“I was interested in writing a child's understanding of a cataclysmic event - something experienced in fragments, whispers, viewed from around corners - and it seemed to me a child would try to understand it through stories and games, which distort and change the experience, then become the experience.”
“I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.”
“All live to die, and rise to fall.”

Source : Christopher Marlowe, Stephen J. Lynch (2015). “Edward II: With Related Texts”, p.73, Hackett Publishing
“I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott, Thomas Banchoff, Seth Caplan, Jeffrey Travis, Dano Johnson (2009). “Flatland: The Movie Edition”, p.15, Princeton University Press
“I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.”

Source : Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2013.
“My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!”

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