"I wanted to be a success on the stage, the screen, or the radio. So I saved my money and when I had bus fare and $16.82 over, I told my mother, Clara, I was going to leave home. She was heartbroken, but she believed in me."

-- Carole Landis

#Heartbroken Quotes #Mother Quotes #Home Quotes

“We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.”

Source : "Magic Powers" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2003.
“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”
“We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly intolerant attitude we hesitate not a minute to secure an organized minority, or even a majority, to attempt by resolution or law to impose our will on a large body of people in matters where no moral wrong is involved and where liberty is curtailed.”
“If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.”
“With better education and affluence there have been more Egyptians interested in nature. There are now more Egyptian divers, desert safari enthusiasts and ecotourists - I know Egyptian who have traveled to Antarctica, Tanzania, South Africa and climbed the Himalayas. Now Egyptians are talking of wanting to explore and see more of their own country. I believe they too will fall in love with Egypt and will want to protect it. The revolution is a process, it will take time, but at least there is hope now!”
“I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.”
“For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows - i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The word gets out that "Hey, we want to buy something like that" and every comedy producer just starts dreaming up ideas like that.”

Source : Source: www.dead-frog.com

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