"One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article about me which said I was a Hungarian writer but pretending not to be. Bearing in mind I can hardly write a cheque in Hungarian, I was delighted to be included in the pantheon of Hungarian writers."

-- Tibor Fischer

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“When you dance, you don't sweat. You glow.”
“One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance.”
“San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.”
“Make peace with what is.”
“People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon instead your personal fears and desires...and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind.”
“The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.”
“Life eats life to live.”

Source : "Circling: 1978-1987". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, 1993.
“I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be.”

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