William S. McFeely Quotes
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American men who failed. With wit and sympathy, Sandage illuminates the grey world of credit evaluation, a little studied smothering arm of capitalism. This is history as it should be, a work of art exploring the social cost of our past.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
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I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, 'I'm worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.'
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
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I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't known about his hacked-off ears and his criminal history, I'd have found him powerful and compelling.
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I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was really interested in musical theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.
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My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.
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Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, 'Oh, I look like a woman.' And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, 'cause I loved it.
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What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far.
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I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.
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I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.
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There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
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Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American men who failed. With wit and sympathy, Sandage illuminates the grey world of credit evaluation, a little studied smothering arm of capitalism. This is history as it should be, a work of art exploring the social cost of our past.
