"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."

-- Russell Lynes

#Drinking Quotes #Excellent Quotes #Novel Quotes

“All things are beautiful seen through the eyes of love.”
“People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.”
“I have yet to hear anyone afflicted with the "gun control" disability dial 9-1-1 and specify, "Now please be sure to send the kind of cops who are disarmed. If you can't do that, we'd rather you not send anyone at all to stop the men who are holding my daughter at knifepoint, because in this household we don't believe that guns ever solve anything."”
“Every film I make I feel like I am getting a mini-masters degree, it's a wonderful life path and you get to immerse yourself in an intriguing world for a couple of years.”

Source : "Interview: Liz Garbus, ‘Bobby Fischer Against the World’". Interview with Russell Cook, cine-vue.com. April 7, 2011.
“Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavor in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts. We also came to realize that we in Canada cannot truly understand the great cultures of the past and of other peoples, until we ourselves commence our own creative life in the arts. Until we do so, we are looking at these from the outside.”

Source : "The best of the Group of Seven".
“The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered,”
“If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?”
“Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.”

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