"I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it teaches you, it informs you, and it changes your writing."

-- Jo-Ann Mapson

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“I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theaterâ€”because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.”
“A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.”
“It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.”
“The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace.”
“I can cook a little bit but pretty much when I get back from practice I am pretty tired that I just order out.”

Source : Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. February 8, 2006.
“Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female.”

Source : Andrew Comiskey (1989). “Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual”, p.101, Charisma Media
“Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.”
“Problems are hidden opportunities and constraints can actually boost creativity. If you have some crazy ideas in your mind, and that people tell you that it's impossible to make, well, that's an even better reason to want to do it, because people have a tendency to see the problems rather than the final result, whereas if you start to deal with problems as being your allies rather than your opponents, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing way.”

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