"I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college."

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Ira Glass

#College Quotes #Class Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified.”
“Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?”
“Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.”
“I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.”

Source : "Kelly Osbourne's DOs and DON'Ts of Body Confidence" by Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. April 2, 2012.
“I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?" And I was like, "Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I'll fill 120 hours of my life with something." So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.”
“Every herbalist has their favorite plant. Mine is Rhodiola rosea.”
“Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?â€The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.”

Source : B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.68, Vintage

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