Darren Campbell quotes

“It's time for us all to step up. We've been extremely successful, but to be honest it's a reality check for everybody.”
-- Darren Campbell

#Successful Quotes #Reality Quotes #Steps Quotes

“I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.”

“Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.”

“A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.”

“I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...”

“People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.”

“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan

“Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.”

“I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.”

“Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.”

“History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.”

Source : Interview with Jim Plaxco, www.astrodigital.org. October 3, 1992.