"Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends."

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Source : "Amazing Shangri-La rescue story". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2011.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#Children Quotes #Nice Quotes #Book Quotes

“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.”
“The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.”

Source : "Danny Huston on playing villains, Nick Cave, and more". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2012.
“With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.”
“One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.”
“Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.”
“There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”
“Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.”
“I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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