"I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money."

-- P. G. Wodehouse

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“In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.”
“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other peopleâ€¦â€¦..”
“`Tis May, the elfish maiden, the daughter of the Spring, Upon whose birthday morning the birds delight to sing. They would not sing one note for you, if you should so command, Although you are a princess, a princess of the land.”

Source : Robert Fuller Murray, Andrew Lang (1894). “Robert F. Murray: His Poems”
“When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“What I like about Paper Girls in particular is that because we're approaching it more from a female perspective, we're able to consider the emotional states of these characters a little bit more, and think more of their interiority.”

Source : "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.
“During a time of surplus, a time of peace before 2001, it was much easier to try and find middle ground. We were running surpluses. But during a time when we're careening into bankruptcy and failing miserably on our foreign policy it's just not the same old "find consensus, go along to get along, be pragmatic, come together" place that it was. I think that some very hard decisions and very hard choices have to be made. They won't be popular, but they're necessary.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“Looks like he's dressed for court.”
“The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.”

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