"Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work."

-- Arthur Rubinstein

“I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.”
“Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.”
“Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power.... It is a place of dreams, not only the tinseled ones.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Black Gondolier: And Other Stories”, p.10, Open Road Media
“I worry unnecessarily.”

Source : "Q&A Natalie Imbruglia". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2005.
“I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.”

Source : "New members: K-L-M", www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.
“The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows.”

Source : Colin Ward (2017). “Anarchy in Action”, p.69, PM Press
“My whole experience into the sitcom world, it was, like, "This is like theater, this is like film... This is a hybrid of everything I love to do. A live audience and rehearsals and... more food!"”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship”

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