"You have to live a life to become a writer."

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Source : "Christopher Meloni and Writer/Director Joel Surnow Talk SMALL TIME, Returning to a Script from 1976, Casting Process, SIN CITY 2, and SURVIVING JACK". Press Day Interview, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

Joel Surnow

“Rascals, do you want to live forever?”
“Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.”
“Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift i guess thats why its the present”
“Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians . And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population . But oh, how they try.”
“Life is too short to read a bad book.”
“Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.”
“The greatest safety lies in putting all your eggs in one basket and watching the basket.”

Source : Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons
“I want to be the joy to people through my work.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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