"The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's."

-- Nelson DeMille

#Writing Quotes #Firsts Quotes #World Quotes

“You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy”
“Don't see a thing working-see it finished!”
“My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.”
“We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement.”
“There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us. Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you "Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?" - Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent. Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn't. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.”
“To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.”
“That information, those 6,000 pages, should be released to the public. It's our right as U.S. citizens to know what our government has done in our name just as I think that these memos about the U.S. of drones should be released to the public.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.”

Source : Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. April 1, 2008.

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