"I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?"

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Source : "Book news and notes, June 12". www.sfgate.com. June 12, 2011.

Edith Pearlman

#Hours Quotes #Sentences Quotes

“I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Age is nothing, can still win the Grand Slam, pretty happy about my age, more experience.”
“An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.”
“Genius speaks only to genius.”

Source : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.176
“why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet ...”
“I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.”
“If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.”

Source : "How Dino De Laurentiis Defied Moviemaking Convention" by Kirk Honeycutt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 12, 2010.
“Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.”

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