"I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays."

-- Sherman Alexie

#Writing Quotes #Bored Quotes #Effort Quotes

“When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.”
“I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity. Most people are unhappy with the emergence of complexity, they would prefer it if the world were very simple, but then it would be a doom for a cryptographer like myself.”
“I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.”
“Dress is an index of your contents.”
“I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience.”
“If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.”

Source : Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.
“My main place is in Switzerland, but I live on a plane, really.”

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