"Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears."

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Julianna Baggott

“Work with people who believe what you believe.”
“Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough”
“When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list - somewhere between politicians and car salesmen. Generally, insurers are seen as clever hucksters who prey on insecurity and ignorance to sell people what they don't need at prices they shouldn't have to pay.”
“I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.”
“When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.”

Source : "Terrence Malick Punched Out A Producer & 10 Other Things We Learned About ‘Badlands’" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. June 03, 2011.
“So if everything goes off great, then it being a triple threat match will make it even more exciting instead of a singles match.”

Source : Source: 411mania.com
“In Orlando, I handled a lot of stuff the wrong way.”
“Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives.”

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