"It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant."

-- Ann Beattie

#Thinking Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Daily Life Quotes

“It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.”
“I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.”
“Tomorrow awaits to become yesterday. Remnant shall only be a smile, a frown or a tear! Let's store what we may!”
“When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system.”
“Here I am, a baseball superstar, falling into the pits, having everybody write you off, and then having God say, 'I'm going to use your mess for a message.' How beautiful is that?”
“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.”
“The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories, workings by scientists, plans to develop long range ballistic missiles.”
“Life is mostly freehand.”

Source : Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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