"M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more"

-- Anne Carson

#Smart Quotes #Blindness Quotes #Very Smart Quotes

“Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.”
“He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.”

Source : Attributed to Gene Fowler in Judy Valon "In Your 60s", 2009.
“I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.”
“When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.”
“If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not.”

Source : "Slumdogs who seek success". The Independent, News, p. 30, January 16, 2009.
“At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.”
“I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.”
“I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.”

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