The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day,

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. – Voltaire

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The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, dont necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day the reality of things is what happens tomorrow. – Drew Barrymore

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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. – Ernest Hemingway

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. – Blaise Pascal

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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. – Louisa May Alcott

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