Antoinetta Bowers Quotes & Sayings

Your personal declaration of will is the first step in a seemingly impossible journey. — Bryant McGill

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job. — William Feather

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be. — Nicholas Sparks

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation. — Jane Austen

How can you grow with your present to get ready for your future if you continue to live in your past and all that it contains. — Angelica Stevenson

Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy, so you can enlist that support group and get as much juice out of your film as possible. That's just practically, financially, what you need to do. — Tim Hetherington

But when I roamed New York City, knowing so much and capable of speaking so nicely, and yet so lonely, and often hungry and cold, I learned the joke at the core of American self-improvement: knowledge was so much junk to be processed one way or another at great universities. The real treasure the great universities offered was a lifelong membership in a respected artificial extended family. — Kurt Vonnegut

I think politics is deadly to write about, frankly. If you have a political agenda and you set out to write a novel to prove that, say, capitalism should crumble, then it's going to be a really bad novel. Very few people have been able to deal with political fiction - Dickens, Dostoyevsky. But even Tolstoy got really tiresome when he was talking about the serfs. You have to let characters be characters, not [gruff voice] Mr Capitalism or [girlie voice] Miss Anti-Fur. — Donna Tartt

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Branding adds spirit and a soul to what would otherwise be a robotic, automated, generic price-value proposition. If branding is ultimately about the creation of human meaning, it follows logically that it is the humans who must ultimately provide it. — David A. Aaker

Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time ... — J.M. Barrie

I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time. — Tatum O'Neal