"You have to be very brave in that first writing session."

-- Barry Mann

#Writing Quotes #Brave Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I think at this point, I'd eventually like to work behind the camera. That's not to say I would never act again, I'm not quite sure to be honest.”

Source : "Tim Allen & Jonathan Taylor Thomas Reunite for 'Last Man Standing'", toofab.com. March 11, 2013.
“My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.”
“There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.”
“The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.”

Source : Henri Pirenne (2013). “Mohammed and Charlemagne”, p.284, Routledge
“That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.”

Source : "Chuck Yeager pulls no punches on space travel". Interview with Thom Patterson, lightyears.blogs.cnn.com. June 5, 2012.
“It's very hard to write humor.”
“The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.”

Source : "Joanna Macy: A Wild Love for the World". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 11, 2016.
“I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.”

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