"It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life conversation seldom is."

“Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.”

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“Don't cheapen Jesus's sacrifice by trying to pay him back”

“My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.”

“Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.”

“Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.”

“When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.”

“I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.”

“I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.”

Source : Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”