"The only pressure comes form myself. I put pressure on myself at first just because I was intimidated. When I made Amy Poehler laugh, it was a big thing for me. She's been one of my role models since high school, because she started UCB, which is what I wanted to do since high school."

-- Aubrey Plaza

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“A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.”
“I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.”
“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”

Source : Jack Gilbert, “A Brief For The Defense”
“One wears one's mind out in study, and yet has more mind with which to study. One gives away one's heart in love and yet has more heart to give away. One perishes out of pity for a suffering world, and is stronger therefore. So, too, it is possible at one and the same time to hold on to life and let go.”

Source : Milton Steinberg (1951). “A believing Jew”
“Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and in part, and would be as perfect at the first moment of its revelation as after ten thousand years of practice. There has never been a religion which fulfills those conditions.”

Source : Robert Blatchford (1917). “God and My Neighbour”
“Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“Mix the the gas with the lean, call that gasoline”
“The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.”

Source : James M. Cain (2010). “Mildred Pierce”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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