"Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off."

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Source : Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

Wally Lamb

#Jobs Quotes #Airplane Quotes #Climbing Quotes

“Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.”

Source : "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs". Book by Joseph Hertz, Genesis III, 21 (p. 12), 1937.
“Twi-moms! I love them, the little cougars!”
“Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.”
“So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.”
“Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.”
“We've been told there's a certain way to live ... that this is living ... and we ... we never really questioned it. We just sort of went along. But what if it's not the best way? What if there's another way that's better? What if there's something more?!”
“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”
“Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.”

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