"Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing."

-- Jackie DeShannon

#Writing Quotes #Redneck Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.”
“Bernard [Leach] had acquired many [Shoji] Hamada works. Some of them, it was interesting - first of all, Hamada worked in St. Ives for about four years before returning to Japan to start his own pottery. He had exhibitions in London, and if these exhibitions didn't sell out, the galleries were instructed to send the remaining work down to the Leach Pottery, where they would go into the showroom for sale. If Bernard saw one that hadn't sold that he really admired, then he would take it (he would buy it), and it would go into the house.”
“Stop fighting and learn how to communicate honestly with each other.”
“Inside you're like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it.”
“. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film . . ..”
“A close look at many churches will reveal that a central problem is the lack of biblical maturity among the men...”
“The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.”
“I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.”

Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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