Demjen Ferenc Quotes & Sayings

Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaires and playboys by the dozen may arrive and be glad-handed for a time, but they are unwise if they choose to live there because the town is, perhaps even creditably, committed to recognising only professional success, and nothing else, to be of lasting value. The burdensome obligation imposed on all its inhabitants is therefore to present themselves as successes, because otherwise they forfeit their right to respect in that environment ... There is no place in that town for the "interesting failure" or for anyone who is not determined on a life that will be shaped in a upward-heading curve. — Julian Fellowes

I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it! — Jennifer Damiano

The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no! — Robert Browning

Without deep work on yourself, how will you avoid re-creating your own internalized oppression in all that you do? — Charles Eisenstein

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. — Baltasar Gracian