"You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for"

-- Maya Angelou

#Life Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Willing Quotes

“I love independent film making. So much real love and passion go into them and you can feel it while you watch. As for my career, I don't want to be famous. I just want to be a part of as many beautiful, crazy, unique films as possible.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Like every girl, I only need to look up and a little to the right of me to see the hysteria that belongs to me, the one that hangs om a hook like an empty jacket and flutters with disappointment that I cannot wear her all the time. I call her my hysteric, and this personal hysteric of mine is designer made (though I'm not sure who made her), flattering and comfortable, attractive even, if you're around people who like that sort of thing. She is not anyone, my hysteric; she is blank, electricity dancing around a filament, singing to kill.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Opposite House”, p.29, A&C Black
“You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.”
“When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.”
“Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.”

Source : JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
“If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining”
“The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.”

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