"Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way."

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Source : Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

Neil Simon

“Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.”
“Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.”
“I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my window, sketching neighborhood children at play. I sketched and listened, and those notebooks became the fertile field of my work later on. There is not a book I have written or a picture I have drawn that does not, in some way, owe them its existence.”
“I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe”
“Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.”
“Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.”

Source : Dan Poynter (2000). “The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book”, Para Publishing
“Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.”
“Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.”

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