"No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer."

-- Arthur Hailey

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“I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.”
“Macho in a different sense, the kind of things that we think makes us a man. It doesn't really exist right now. I really don't want it to seem that I think it's a problem that women are in development, I don't think it's as problem at all, I just think it's an interesting time that we're in. And maybe long overdue - maybe television for a long time was made for men and it's long overdue.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.”
“If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.”
“art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”

Source : "Talks on the Appreciation of Art". "The Delineator" Magazine, January 1915.
“For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“I believe in workers rights when people are doing a good job. If somebody needs support I am always there, but if they're taking the piss, I am hard on them.”

Source : "Gruff and tough operator rings off with a billion" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2006.
“These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.”

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