"I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking."

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Carl Hiaasen

#Distance Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cattle Quotes

“I put my heart in my work.”

Source : "The Life and Death of Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, consortiumnews.com. October 12, 2016.
“How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.”
“There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing. ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.”
“Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.”
“Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.”
“Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.”
“I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.”
“Only in Southern California do camping grounds actually have wifi, so I was sitting in my tent and I started reading it on my computer, and I couldn't put it down. More importantly, I kept getting up in the middle of the night going, "Oh, this is cool," so I pitched them an idea that they seemed to like.”

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