John Irving I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read. – John Irving Book Quotes Draft Quotes Read Quotes Rewrite Quotes Slowly Quotes Takes Quotes Write Quotes More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn’t say I have a talent that’s special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. I don’t really set out to explore grand themes. I set out to tell a story. And one I have to be able to imagine right through.
Sebastian Gorka If there’s no overlap between the interests of the people you sit down with, then the negotiations really can’t be driven anywhere. – Sebastian Gorka
Grace Potter Think about what makes a band burn out. They get too successful too fast. And then they take it for granted. And they get entitled. And they get picky. We don’t ever allow ourselves that possibility. – Grace Potter
Elmer Davis It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons. – Elmer Davis
Kenneth Lonergan When I walk onto a film set, I become frightened and nervous. There’s all this equipment, all these people, and most of them do things you don’t know how to do. I didn’t come from a film background. – Kenneth Lonergan
Rachael Stirling She was just Ma, and I didn’t grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn’t come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our housekeeper, whom I adored, and after that, it was boarding school. – Rachael Stirling
Bert Lance All these years, they’ve been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We’ve said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn’t mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart. – Bert Lance
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