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Stephen Sondheim quote: "I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the..."

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

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Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something. Paul Theroux
Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love. Billy Ocean
I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New England, Massachusetts for me. Amos Bronson Alcott
Edmond Rostand quote: "My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds..."
My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own. Edmond Rostand
James H. Boren quote: "It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the..."
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. James H. Boren
Anthony Bourdain quote: "Without new ideas success can become stale."
Without new ideas success can become stale. Anthony Bourdain
One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this. Sam Mendes
Boyd Rice quote: "I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling..."
I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself. Boyd Rice
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. Will Carleton
There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know. Carson McCullers
Haim Ginott quote: "Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant..."
Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults. Haim Ginott
William Butler Yeats quote: "For he would be thinking of love. Till the stars had run away...."
For he would be thinking of love. Till the stars had run away. And the shadows eaten the moon. William Butler Yeats
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it. Colleen McCullough
Amy Lowell quote: "Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking..."
Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease. Amy Lowell
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story. Patti Smith