"I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's private lives are just so much more bizarre and Ted Haggard-like than you could ever imagine. It's almost hard to write fiction anymore."

-- Jerry Stahl

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'”
“Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.”
“Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.”
“Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.”
“Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner”

Source : 'The Rachel Maddow Show' with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. July 29, 2009.
“The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson ...”
“I grabbed it and squeezed it back into place. It gave a little crunch and popped right in.”

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