Randy L. Schmidt Quotes

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else

When a studio puts you under contract, its publicity department starts turning out news copy about you that you read with astonishment. You think, can this be me they’re talking about? They don’t really manufacture untruths, but they play up whatever makes interesting reading, and then a columnist adds his own little embellishments and another adds to that until there’s a whole body of so called ‘facts’ floating around — almost like another you — that simply isn’t real. It isn’t a lie, but it isn’t real, either.

Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul

Să fii intodeauna o versiune de primă mână a propriei persoane, nu una de mâna a doua a altcuiva.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of being a second-rate version of someone else.

i was a woman. glamorous, sparkling, with eyes that shone, guarding secrets untold, lips that were petulant, pouting and bold with a body moulded to gentlemen's delight and pedicured toe-nails shining and bright. i patronized night clubs, danced until three, and hundreds of men were mad at me. then, in a panic my dream began to cool, i mashed out the cigarette and was late to school.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.

always be a first-rate version of your self instead of a second-rate version of someone else.

sing till i burst my breast with such passion. sing, then fall dead to lay at your feet

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz (1939)

never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.