"Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide."

-- Della Reese

#Doing What You Love Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes

“I don't write music for critics or hipsters.Â I write for me.”
“Step by step and the thing is done.”
“We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at best. Second and more important: I remind myself to find the pleasure in this moment, a time in which the red sky passes to black, children create unanticipated rhymes, and the stars fall closer to earth.”
“If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.”
“Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.”

Source : Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.47, Penguin
“Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.”

Source : 1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).
“I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.”
“When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.”

Source : "American Speaker : Your Guide to Successful Speaking". Book by Aram Bakshian, 1992.

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