"I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it easy to find? Are there new primary sources that no one has ever had access to? Are all the sources in English? If they're not, are they in a language that you speak? And I realized that not only is Armstrong the most important figure of Jazz in the 20th Century, but he's a perfect subject for a biography for all of these reasons. I had always loved his music and I had been fascinated in him as a personality. And that's really the key to writing a biography."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Terry Teachout

#Writing Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Personality Quotes

“I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.”

Source : "Janis Ian's Controversial 'Society's Child'". Interview with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. March 2, 2009.
“Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.”
“I just think that beautiful people don't have it as hard, you know? They just don't know what rejection's like. That's why super models aren't good actresses, because they don't need anything. If someone is beautiful and she's needy, she's probably had a terrible childhood.”
“Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.”
“I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.”
“The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.”
“Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.”

Source : Suki Kim (2014). “Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite”, p.44, Crown
“Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.”

Source : Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1958). “A Spiritual Aeneid”

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