"One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you."

-- Jeff Bezos

#Mistake Quotes #Passion Quotes #People Quotes

“I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.”
“I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.”
“Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God -- imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant -- and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we'd be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave?”
“Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that world completely. Search it to find your deepest longings and most terrible fears. Let imagination carry you as far as it may, as long as you recount the voyage with excitement and wonder. But this is the most important rule: write the book you most long to read.”

Source : "Know thy subject" by Steven Saylor, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.
“My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember itâ€™s by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Donâ€™t be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice youâ€™ve just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life.”
“An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.”

Source : E. F. Benson (2015). “MAKE WAY FOR LUCIA - Complete Mapp and Lucia Series (6 Novels & 2 Short Story Collections): Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp, Lucia in London, Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress or The Worshipful Lucia, Trouble for Lucia, The Male Impersonator and Desirable Residences”, p.339, e-artnow
“The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.”
“There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.”

Source : "Problems in the Relations of God and Man" by Clement Charles Julian Webb, (p. 107), 1911.

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