"I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."

-- Tracy Kidder

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Shows Quotes

“High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.”
“Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates.”
“Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.”
“I think one of the most radical things a girl can do is to own her body. And we learn so young not to own these bodies of ours.”
“Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.”
“Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.”
“Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.”
“We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.”

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