"I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift."

-- Alexei Sayle

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Belief Quotes

“President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.”
“I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge for me too.”
“It's time to be bold about who you really are.”
“Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else.Â This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the stregnth to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears.Â Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.”
“Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.”
“Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors.”
“All of the good, weird stories Iâ€™ve written are based on things Iâ€™ve dredged out of my subconscious. Thatâ€™s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.”
“I never got into politics for it to be a career.”

Source : "10 questions for J.C. Watts". Interview With Douglas Waller, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2002.

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