"Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had."

-- Barry Hannah

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“I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.”

Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.
“do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.”
“I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.”

Source : Clement Richard Attlee, Francis Williams (1962). “Twilight of Empire: Memoirs of Prime Minister Clement Attlee”
“I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from.”
“Scandal is only human.”
“Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.”

Source : Twitter post from May 08, 2012
“You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.”

Source : "Child of Fate - Margaret Sullavan". Book by Lawrence J. Quirk (p. 77), 1986.
“For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.”

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