"Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way."

--

Charles Frazier

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“I think cinema is needed throughout Africa, because we are lagging behind in the knowledge of our own history. I think we need to create a culture that is our own. I think that images are very fascinating and very important to that end. But right now, cinema is only in the hands of film-makers because most of our leaders are afraid of cinema.”

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“I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.”
“Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.”
“We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.”
“(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.”
“What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.”
“The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.”
“The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.”

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