"There is only one proof of ability - action."

-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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“Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession -- a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.”
“The three most important things a manager does: One is get the money. Two is always remember to get the money. Three is never forget to always remember to get the money.”
“I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.”
“In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.”
“Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.”

Source : "He Didn't Mean to Hurt You" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. August 20, 2012.
“If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.”
“An actors' tribute to me is in his work.”
“I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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