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Don't Ever Quit. Never Quit. Never Show Anybody You're Hurt. Grin And Walk Through The Cannon Smoke. It Will Drive Them Up The Wall. You Always Stay True To Your Own Principles. You Always Believe In Your Gift. God Doesn't Make Mistakes When He Presents Someone With A Gift Like That. It's There For A Reason. Tell The Naysayers, Those Who Reject You, To Drop Dead! Who Cares?

Age Is A Peculiar Kind Of Thief. It Slips Up On You And Steps Inside Your Skin And Is So Quiet And Methodical In Its Work That You Never Realize It Has Stolen Your Youth Until You Look Into The Mirror One Morning And See A Man You Don't Recognize.

I Used To Save All My Rejection Slips Because I Told Myself, One Day I'm Going To Autograph These And Auction Them. And Then I Lost The Box.

I Could Only Wonder Again At The White Race's Naïveté In Always Sending Forth Our Worst Members As Our Emissaries.

Never Read Bad Stuff If You're An Artist; It Will Impair Your Own Game. I Don't Know If You Ever Played Competitive Tennis, But You Learn Not To Watch Bad Tennis; It Messes Up Your Game. Art's The Same Way.