"Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities."

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Source : LEN DEIGHTON (1967). “AN EXPENSIVE PLACE TO DIE”

Len Deighton

#Mistake Quotes #Silly Quotes #Creative Quotes

“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.”

Source : "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude". Book by Etienne de La Boetie, 1576.
“For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.”
“I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.”
“I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.”

Source : "U.S. Open: Roddick Speaks" by Reeves Wiedeman, www.newyorker.com. September 1, 2011.
“There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.”
“Cold loveâ€™s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.”
“Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.”
“I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.”

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