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Lucy Corin
"You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of copies and then you'll have the money to do the kind of writing you want to do"? I always say that I don't have the skills or knowledge to do that. It would be just as hard for me to do that kind of writing as it would be to learn how to do any number of productive careers that I can't manage to make myself do." --
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Lucy Corin
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“Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.”
“Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.”
Source : "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.
“One of my favorite things to do within horror is explore this feeling that a lot of people seem to have from time to time, of there being currents of another reality running beneath, or alongside, what we see and interact with every day.”
“An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.”
“Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.”
“Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.”
“Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.”