"My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater."

-- Shirley Knight

#New York Quotes #Goal Quotes #Study Quotes

“Donâ€™t beg anybody for anything, especially love.”
“I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.”

Source : "Sheryl Sandberg: the first lady of Facebook takes the world stage" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2012.
“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”
“It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.”
“I don't want everyone to think of me as just 'that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.' That's why I decided to become a famous actress.”
“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”
“Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.”
“the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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