"I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe bets; if they've been around for 2,000 years, there's a reason. It's often a title or just a phrase within the text that will compel me to adapt it."

-- Mary Zimmerman

#Years Quotes #Usa Quotes #Phrases Quotes

“Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing your craft. That's how you learn how to do it. You don't learn how to write about jazz just from listening to jazz. You learn how to write by reading the great writers and how they worked, the great music critics.”

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“This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.”
“In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one”
“I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book”
“The rest of the Spice Girls wanted to invite the entire Bayern Munich team because they reckoned they'd never known blokes to be on top for 90 minutes and still come second.”
“In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargainingâ€¦. We demand this fraud be stopped.”
“Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.”
“I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.”

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