#ale

Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#talent #art

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#confidence #consolation #doubt #granted #greater

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#brick #burden #businesses #cannot #communities

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#cost #internet #more #purchases #sales

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#misattributed #paul-valery #writing #art

Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up. ↗

— William Devane

#antagonist #before #came #cast #donna

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had. ↗

— Gail Devers

#any #athlete #became #because #brother

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#fairy tales #family #father #had #how

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality. ↗

— Ronnie James Dio

#been #better #bit #case #early

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#fame #luck #more #much #perhaps