“You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.”
Source: Everything I Never Told You
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"Lingering Still".
Volume Two (2010)
Lake Wobegon Days (1985), p. 337
Source: Lake Wobegon U.S.A.
On how success is earned in “GOLDIE HAWN” https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/goldie-hawn in Interview Magazine (2017 Apr 25)
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.”
Variant: You can get what you want or you can just get old.
As quoted in Acting Is a Job: Real-life Lessons About the Acting Business (2006) by Jason Pugatch, p. 73; this statement has occurred with many different phrasings, including: "Learn the changes, then forget them."
you ask. "Well, I'll get more," he says. Just as at cricket, you get more runs. There's no use in the runs, but to get more of them than other people is the game. So all that great foul city of London there, — rattling, growling, smoking, stinking, — a ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore, — you fancy it is a city of work? Not a street of it! It is a great city of play; very nasty play and very hard play, but still play.
The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture I: Work, sections 23-24 (1866)
