"My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers."

-- Mario Benedetti

#Book Quotes #Two Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I didn't think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I'd written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought it might sell a few thousand copies and go out of print. I thought if I was lucky I could write more books and get them published, too. I still pinch myself over the way things have worked out.”
“When Iâ€™m Chad from Nickelback, then I have to wear one hat and I have to wear various others when Iâ€™m Chad Kroeger who is co-owner of 604 Records or someone whoâ€™s working on an independent project. At that point I want to know where the record is getting licensed, as well as absolutely every aspect of how weâ€™re going to deliver a song to the public andÂ how weâ€™ll all get paid for doing so.”
“Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself”
“I would like my kids to follow their bliss.”
“I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified.”
“Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original.”
“My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.”
“Turkey is united against terror. People from left and right, men, women, children, different ethnicities, different religious groups are all united, and they're all condemning terrorism. We have been fighting against PKK terrorism. We're fighting against Daesh, ISIS. We're fighting against FETO. We're fighting against the HKPC. So we know how hard dealing with terrorism is.”

Source : Source: www.cbc.ca

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