"Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense."

-- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

#Artist Quotes #Praise Quotes #Applause Quotes

“Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud.... ...But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that. This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well. ..but she never realized how much pain it brought her.... -Nana Komatsu”
“I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.”
“I love a man who has lived a full life and lived on the edge.”
“She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.”
“Itâ€™s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. Itâ€™s a question of will and discipline.”
“There were a lot of races I was going to win at Milwaukee, but I had mechanical problems or something would happen, ... In the early years, it just took a long time for me to win a race. I got in somebody's oil one time and got in the wall, had a clutch go out once. . . so when I finally won one, it was a long time coming.”
“I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.”
“The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It deter- mines what people will talk and think about-an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.”

Source : Theodore Harold White (1973). “The making of the President, 1972”, Scribner

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