"I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to become a real person - is quite an interesting thing. You're seeing all of your friends doing amazing things and you're just there, in a void, feeling a bit stupid. I wouldn't be able to say what I'd have been like without it, but maybe I'd be incredibly high-powered and successful. It also forced me to spend most of my time in my imagination."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Evie Wyld

#Real Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Successful Quotes

“The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.”

Source : Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.27, Harper Collins
“The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.”
“I know a little bit about handicapping. If the horse has an IV, you want to stay - away from it.”
“It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.”
“Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.”
“We havent been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?”
“Leaders need 5 core competences: soul, head, hand, heart, body. Where do you need to grow?”
“While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' -- my kids get them all the time -- I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard,”

Source : "What did Obama do to win the Nobel Peace Prize?" by Gideon Rachman, www.ft.com. October 9, 2009.

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