"The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times."

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Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alethea Kontis

#Interesting Quotes #Good Times Quotes #Bad Times Quotes

“In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.”
“If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.”
“But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.”
“Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.”
“My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a shoebox. One of the regulars in 'the cafe said to my father: "I think you should get your son an accordion-that's what he's trying to do, with that shoebox." So they got me a little cardboard diatonic accordion-I still have it. I started to play the National Anthem, and things like that. It seems I was musically gifted-but my parents just never pushed in that direction.”
“I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?' 'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war.”
“Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.”
“You play the golf course just like you played it in your practice rounds and you stick to your game plan and just try to get whatever you can out of it.”

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