"I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time"

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Source : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1978). “Merman”

Ethel Merman

#Talent Quotes #Right Time Quotes

“When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced.”
“I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.”
“Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.”
“Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.”
“When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.”
“Any land will flow with milk and honey if it is worked with honest hands!”

Source : Rudolfo A. Anaya (1972). “Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel”, Tqs Publications
“Each civilization may choose one of two roads to travel, that is, either fret itself to death, or pet itself to death. And in the course of doing one or the other, it eats its way into the Universe, turning cinders and flinders of stars into toilet seats, pegs, gears, cigarette holders and pillowcases, and it does this because, unable to fathom the Universe, it seeks to change that Fathomlessness into Something Fathomable.”
“I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.”

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