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As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#artist #case #first #going #loyalty

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#gun #his #horse #i #lessons

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. ↗

— James Baldwin

#helpless #man #rare #very #who

Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden. ↗

— George Ball

#endless #engaged #garden #into #israelis

There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles. ↗

— Anne Bancroft

#billing #content #days #find #good

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#enhances #family #family life #few #how

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#i #liked #me #never #onscreen

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#inevitable #life #meet #need #obstacles

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer. ↗

— Leslie Banks

#blessing #faith #friends #hear #kept

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book. ↗

— Leslie Banks

#book #called #contest #got #grew