"Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?"

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Teacher Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.”
“I don't think it had a name when we started. If punk has any roots, Dada is part of it. And we saw ourselves as part of a kind of Dada tradition.”
“I want to expand my cuisine to this country. I love America. I have been here 22 years.”
“If you take guns away from legal gun owners then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs. You'd use a rock or tear one of these chairs out of the floor. Hey, maybe I've been watching too many Bruce Willis movies!”
“There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again,”

Source : "FBI Director: Cybercrime will eclipse terrorism" by Stacy Cowley, money.cnn.com. March 2, 2012.
“Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.”

Source : Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “This Isn't What It Looks Like: The Secret Series”, p.87, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?”

Source : "InDepth InterView Exclusive: Patti LuPone Talks FAR AWAY PLACES, 54 Below, PARKER, Broadway, Hollywood & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. February 7, 2013.
“As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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