"I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since."

-- Amy Waldman

#Powerful Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It's very rare that you get a group of people who are all passionate and driven and all get along.”

Source : "Crush of the Week: Kelly Blatz". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 9, 2010.
“Old peoples' skin sags because it's being pulled toward the underworld.”
“I should have been a stuntwoman.”
“There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. And, I do not intend to be quiet about it.”
“I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.”

Source : "Chelsea omit Frank Lampard and John Terry for FA Cup semi-final" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.
“I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden.”

Source : "Comedy Post-Bin Laden" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 16, 2011.
“Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.”
“When I'm at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go.”

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