"You have to be a star to be in this business."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Jenifer Lewis

“I'm comfortable in my own skin. I know I'm not going to ever be Cindy Crawford or Elle MacPherson.”
“Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.”
“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”
“My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes”
“South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.”

Source : Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers introduction (1950)
“Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.”
“When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.”
“When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.”

Source : William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.397, Random House

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