"There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors."

-- Jess Walter

#Self Quotes #Promotion Quotes

“Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.”
“All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. It's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior.”

Source : "U.S. Rep. Paul Broun: Evolution a lie 'from the pit of hell'" by Matt Pearce, articles.latimes.com. October 07, 2012.
“Your thoughts are as free as any bird”
“Cordings make the best Covert coats, corduroys, moleskins and all the accoutrements. When I need a covert coat I get it from Cordings rather than make one myself and I'm a tailor so I should know! Cordings is without doubt, the best at what they do; they produce a quality which surpasses any other company of its kind in Britain.”
“Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 407-08, Literary Character of Men of Genius, Miscellanists, 1922.
“The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.”
“I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.”

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