"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity."

-- Frances Harper

#Success Quotes #Shells Quotes #May Quotes

“Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..." They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news.”
“To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.”

Source : "Maya Rudolph: The Fresh Air Interview". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 8, 2012.
“Numbers are a fearful thing.”
“It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.”
“When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.”

Source : "Navid Negahban: A Back Stage Exclusive". Interview with Noah Laracy, www.backstage.com. November 25, 2009.
“The indigenous peoples of the great tourist spots seem to lose their souls. All cultural, religious, and political efforts and ideals are crippled since the culture is engaged only in luring ever more tourists. It is not the contact with an essentially foreign population that corrupts the inhabitants of the great foreign resorts. It is the contact with great masses of people who are seeking fir the moment only well-being and not salvation that weakens and devalues the indigenous population.”
“The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.”

Source : Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12972, Delphi Classics
“Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.”

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