"The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing"

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Source : FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from May 12, 2015

Susan Howatch

#Truth Quotes #Sound Quotes #Advantage Quotes

“The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.”
“Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code...”
“I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?”
“When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.”
“Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.”
“As we mourn President Mandelaâ€™s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africaâ€™s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?”
“Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.”

Source : Autobiographical Essay for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.
“I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.”

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