Russell Banks Quotes
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
Russell Banks
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There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
Katee Sackhoff
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My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.
Andrew Marvell
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Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
Mason Cooley
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As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.
David Bergen
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You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.
Amaury Nolasco
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There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
Nelson Mandela
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred Allen
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It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
Lewis B. Smedes
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I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.
Andres Serrano
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I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write.
David Duchovny
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.
Pietro Aretino
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The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
Phyllis Schlafly
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You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.
Neale Donald Walsch
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Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?
Jacques Plante
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The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
James Rollins
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Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.
Kurt Elling
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Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
Letitia Baldrige
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And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
Russell Banks