"I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State."

-- Dana Carvey

#San Francisco Quotes #Competition Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.”

Source : Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1879). “Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems”
“We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.”

Source : Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue”, p.1, Routledge
“You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.”
“Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.”
“Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.”

Source : Arthur Kemp (2009). “The Lie of Apartheid and other true stories from Southern Africa”, p.2, Lulu.com
“Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's”

Source : Marian Keyes (2009). “Last Chance Saloon”, p.11, Harper Collins
“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.”
“My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.”

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