"One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it.""

-- Zak Penn

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“I think that we don't have, here in the Middle East or in Africa, as much threat to our physical and economic livelihood as women in other parts of the world. But the continuum is the same. The pressures on women to fit into a certain image of a good Muslim girl is the same. The controls and rules are the same, but there are different degrees of it. So, in America, a father will threaten a daughter that he will disown her if she marries the American boyfriend and in Pakistan she faces acid thrown on her face. The power dynamic is the same, it just expresses itself differently.”
“Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.”
“At one time or another, farts have coincided with every other sound, including this quote.”
“That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.”
“African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.”
“Yes, life can be rich down here. But never forget, the richest life is still to come.”
“Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.”
“It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, Atlantic Monthly Press

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