"To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing."

-- Robertson Davies

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“Period movies are just always a wonderful thing to work on.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When L.A.â€™s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.”
“I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.”
“Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.”

Source : Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
“There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.”
“Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent of the placental Mammalia. It is as if nature herself had forseen the arrogance of man, and with Roman severity had provided that his intellect, by its very triumphs, should call into prominence the slaves, admonishing the conqueror that he is but dust.”
“I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.' So I jump on the airplane, try new things-sometimes I get in way over my head, but then I think, I'll work my way out of this somehow. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morningThe thing I love about living in New York is that I never fail to get up in the morning and think,Something adventurous is going to happen today. The energy is operating at full throttle all the time. And if you want to be lucky you've got to go out and take advantage of it.”

Source : "Tom Brokaw: 'I'm The Luckiest Guy in the World'" by Kathleen Mccleary, parade.com. May 1, 2015.
“Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.”

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