"Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you."

-- Carl Sandburg

#Self Respect Quotes #Coins Quotes

“To the truly driven (which one has to be to survive in the high stakes, competitive world of show business), lack of opportunity means nothing. The TDs always think numbers are for everyone else and don't involve them.”

Source : K. Callan (2000). “Directing Your Directing Career”
“I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.”
“Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.”

Source : "Climbing a Mountain for Hunger" by Cat Cora, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.
“I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.”

Source : "Is Britishness a generous thing, or has it damaged England?". "Today" with Jim Naughtie, www.opendemocracy.net. January 17, 2012.
“When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa.”
“I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.”
“Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.”
“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”

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