"A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic."

-- Steven Pressfield

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Fake Quotes

“I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.”
“A lot of things create a distraction, and when you're on a quest as a football team you want to limit distractions. I'm very much on board with that because I am a football player, and things can be distracting. We have 53 people that we have to make sure aren't distracted, because we only have 16 turns to do it, so every one matters so much.”

Source : "'People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football'". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.
“Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I donâ€™t want to do what my idols didâ€¦ I want to do more than they did. And I feel like Iâ€™m on my way.”
“There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.”
“Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The parents' job is to protect, the daughter's job is to explore.”
“Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.”
“A movie is a miracle, even if it turns out to be a disappointment.”

Source : "I'm grateful that I'm kind of a late bloomer, or someone who's still challenged by needing to work on things. I don't envy people who just don't have to kind of work on it". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 27, 2014.

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