"My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too."

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Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com

Frederick Busch

#Hero Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.”
“I am fortunate to have access to an array support and services, and I certainly could not do my job without them. But sadly, not everyone has access to the same resources.”
“Once the audience has to use themselves to cross the distance to the character, that's what's really exciting. That's when it starts to be a discussion between the art form and the audience, and that's fun stuff.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.”
“C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.”
“In the last century, everybody was singing lower.”
“In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.”
“To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.”

Source : Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.64, Broadway Books

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