"A Thousand Pardons began at the beginning. I wanted it to be one continuous, almost breathless kind of story. In order to do that, it's really hard not to begin at the beginning. There's such a chain of consequence to everything that happens to main characters - it's very hard to break it apart and still be able to hold the plot in your head."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Jonathan Dee

#Character Quotes #Kind Quotes #Break Quotes

“I am the world's worst good bridge player.”
“We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.”
“Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.”
“I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.”
“I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.”
“The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.”
“It's all authentic. It's a great story. You have a dream 35 years ago - doesn't come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it's somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you're looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination,”

Source : "CNN Live Event/Special" with Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2013.
“We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.”

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