"I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at."

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Source : "A Wry Survivor, Elaine Stritch Returns to Film" by Leslie Bennetts, www.nytimes.com. December 21, 1987.

Elaine Stritch

#Thinking Quotes #Thrill Quotes #World Quotes

“Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it, you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it, the bag will be empty when you need it most.”

Source : Conn Iggulden (2013). “Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection”, p.78, HarperCollins UK
“Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.”

Source : "Under the Tuscan Sun". www.imdb.com. September 20, 2003.
“There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.”
“I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.”
“Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When heâ€™s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, heâ€™s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.”
“Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.”

Source : Song: Amazing Grace, 2012
“Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.”
“Im in the public eye. I know Im not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.”

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