Isaac Marion Quotes
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.
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'I don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'
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I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
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The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
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In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?
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Some Marine units actually use 'An Officer and a Gentleman' in their training programs.
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Rushdie is a hostage.
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I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing.
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There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?
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We always focus on the quality of music because as long as the content is good, then the interest will be there.
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I've always wanted to win in my hometown.
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With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open—a woman’s hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road—and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.
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Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.
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My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.
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We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion.
