"I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering."

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Source : Donald McCaig (1998). “Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men”

Donald McCaig

#Intense Quotes #Concentration Quotes

“The French cook; we open tins.”
“A good impression is lost so quickly...”
“When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didnt have time to think.”
“Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there”
“Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.”
“I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?”

Source : "Are these Britain's greatest wits ... or twits?" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2007.
“I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally do it in a rush. I have to get it out, otherwise I can't sleep.”
“I don't believe in astrology. It's a lot of crap. I just think that's another thing you should throw out the window. Mysticism. Cheap. It's amazing that people still hang on to that after all these years.”

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