"It took me fifteen years to discover I……" — Robert Benchley
"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."
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87 Quotes by Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley has 87 quotes on this site.
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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before…
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Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the…
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
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The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
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Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
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I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
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More Career Success Quotes
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion…
— Russell Baker
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's…
— Rita Mae Brown
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In business, your positive thoughts and lifestyle choices lead to your personal success and your career success.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
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Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.
— Robertson Davies
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Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
— H. L. Mencken
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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
— Louis Untermeyer
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For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters…
— Dennis Prager
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The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling…
— David Brooks
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Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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