"Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself that all of that time and energy wasn't wasted, that it will make you a better writer, if nothing else."

-- Mary J. Miller

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Energy Quotes

“Everybody loses the thing that made them.”

Source : "Fictional character: Hushpuppy". "Beasts of the Southern Wild", www.imdb.com. 2012.
“I feel that when you are a world champion, your title has to be taken away from you.”
“Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.”

Source : 'The Entertainer' (1957) no. 7
“Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next door is all the American male could wish for: unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.”
“Swifter, higher, stronger.”
“We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.”

Source : Speech to Bible class at Plains, Georgia, March 1976, in Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser 11 Apr. 1976
“I'm a little fatigued of adults saying we've got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don't know science and are running things and wielding resources and legislation.”
“I don't think anyone likes to see a picture of themselves in a tabloid, besides a couple people who I'm not going to mention. I'm definitely not one of those people.”

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