"I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon."

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John Brandon

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“Jesusâ€™ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer is a gift of God, it is also an art learned through constant practice. Jesus teaches us to pray constantly, but also to bear witness before others of the beauty of prayer, self-surrender and complete openness to God.”
“I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes.”

Source : "James Scott’s Violent Landscape". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2014.
“Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.”
“I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything that lives is holy and somehow integrated; and on cloudy days I suspect that these extraordinary phenomena, and the hundreds of tiny, modest versions no one hears about, are an ocean, an earth, a Creator, something shaking us by the collar, demanding our attention, our fear, our vigilance, our respect, our help.”

Source : Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.36, Penguin UK
“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”

Source : "Mind/Body Problems" by John Updike, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2004.
“People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions with a very few subjects, which it is up to the writer to find.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult
“You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can. And the next day do it again.”

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