Richard Flanagan The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men in suits, whereas that doesn’t happen in books. You just go and write, and then the book comes out. – Richard Flanagan Book Quotes Books Quotes Devote Quotes Fawning Quotes Flattering Quotes Happen Quotes Life Quotes Movies Quotes Suits Quotes Write Quotes Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon. Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That’s what writing does – it allows you to say all those things.
Mary Landrieu As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it’s education or health care. – Mary Landrieu
Christopher Walken Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language. – Christopher Walken
Nat Turner All my time not devoted to my master’s service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means. – Nat Turner
Alexandra C Pelosi Towns have to evolve. Towns have to grow up. But not at the expense of the real people. – Alexandra C Pelosi
Marty Stuart When I pick up Hank Williams’ guitar or that first suit that Johnny Cash wore on stage, it empowers me. – Marty Stuart
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