"I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region."

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Tom Barbash

#Thinking Quotes #Somewhere Else Quotes #Stuck Quotes

“Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.193, Allison & Busby
“I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.”
“He who cannot love must learn to flatter.”
“I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.”
“The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.”
“Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make no bones about the fact that I steal from here and I take from there, and we all do it, that's perfectly all right, that's the nothing, there's nothing new in the world, there's nothing actually new in the way that you do something, but the point is is how do you take something and use it to articulate what is essentially a core of any given theatrical production.”
“...the only thing that had tethered her to the earth had been him and it was strange, but she felt welded to him on some core level now. He had seen her at her absolute worst, at her weakest and most insane, and he hadn't looked away. He hadn't judged and he hadn't been burned. It was as if in the heat of her meltdown they had melted together. This was more than emotion. It was a matter of soul.”
“We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal wordsâ€”that the words on the pages were codes, and that the Bible is comprised of heavy-handed and useless story covering up something much more important and interesting. I get the feeling that [Dan Brown] is trying to tell me something, but I am not biting, reader.”

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