#now

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule. ↗

— Robert Caro

#early #easy #everything #excuse #fool

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#knowledge #leads #literary #nothing #straight

There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling. ↗

— Robert Caro

#getting #know #physical #real #real feeling

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ↗

— Leslie Caron

#great #happy #how #know #order

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#adult #became #began #boy #dreamed

I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#country #gag #get #get a real #go

If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#almost #because #body #clock #eight

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#career #feel #freedom #i #i do

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#bus #day #deal #enough #i

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#girl #i #i remember #imprinted #isolation