Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
Jean de La Fontaine
Recitation: by Male by Female
My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.
John Burnside
MistakesSecondThirdNovelsWere
There is pressure when you have a very big book like 'Shadow Divers' to follow up with something big. But you can't let that pressure determine what you do. You just look for the best stories, and when you find a great one, you tell it.
Robert Kurson
GreatBestShadowBookPressureYou
I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.
Matthew Fox
GreatExperienceEndPartyShow
Quit being 'busy' and start actively owning and operating your company, and you'll be able to understand where the money is coming from and how to make more of it.
Michael Gerber
MoneyStartBusyYouUnderstand
You have to do stuff that you're actually incredibly passionate and excited about and you know something about. The 'oppor-tuneurs' don't do as well as the entrepreneurs.
Michael Dell
YouKnowPassionateExcitedWell
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir
WorkTruthMenWorldViewOwn
My mom thought I could dance because I used to dance to this Janet Jackson song she'd play when I was a baby. Then she would take me to a Saturday dance school. I used to go every week and got spotted by a scout, who suggested I audition for the role of Billy in 'Billy Elliot the Musical.'
Tom Holland
DanceSchoolMeBabyMomSong
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton
LovePowerLove IsCandleSunSet
I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.
Jared Padalecki
FunnyLoveThinkComedyWhyGuess
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
Diogenes
NoiseOnlyMadmenCalumny
If you go through the regular process of the House and Senate passing companion bills and then try and work out differences in the conference, maybe we can get something done.
Austin Scott
WorkProcessYouDifferencesHouse
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
LifeMenPerfectionMagicPersonUp
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