Douglas Brunt Quotes
The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.
Douglas Brunt
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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R. L. Stine
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Gary Clark Jr.
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson
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James Dyson
I think the last book I cried in was Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I don't shy away from crying, though. I actually really enjoy being moved like that.
Albert Hammond, Jr.
We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
J. Michael Bishop
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.
Douglas Brunt
