"In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the fabled waters of the Hudson River, where she became a fireboat engineer. This is an unusual and fascinating book."

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Jon Meacham

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“Why did we get together? Because God wanted us to do it. We were just trying to do what God wants us to do. We didn't feel like we had much of a choice.”
“Success is always dangerous. It can make an ***** out of anybody.”
“There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them.”
“It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of quiet people. I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great . This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.”
“As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.”

Source : "Nashville’s Sam Palladio on the Music, Avoiding TMZ, and Gunnar and Scarlett". Interview with Gwynne Watkins, www.vulture.com. December 12, 2012.
“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.”
“The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.”
“My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.”

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