"Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps."

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Source : Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

Ernest K. Gann

#Jobs Quotes #Play Quotes

“It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.”
“I've always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they're at the right place at the right time and it's the right situation, it clicks. I've always felt that I've connected with screenplays. It's the romantic in me.”
“The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden”
“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.181, Vintage
“America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.”
“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.”
“I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems”
“Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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