"I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me."

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Gertrude Stein

#Thinking Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.”
“Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.”

Source : "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.
“One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand.”
“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”

Source : Og Mandino (2007). “The Greatest Secret In The World”, p.52, Jaico Publishing House
“This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.”

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. September 23, 2008.
“Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.”
“Because America is such a big country, I can understand that if you don't travel you don't really understand what is going on. I get it. I tell myself I know all about America, but I don't; I know L.A. and New York.”
“One shouldn’t despair over the fact that some of the developments one has hoped for were never produced but only became a beginning. Perhaps they will be revived some day in the future if necessary or reasonable, when the time is ripe”

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