"If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed."

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Source : "Author Shaara's Pilgrimage To Civil War Sites". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. April 24, 2011.

Jeff Shaara

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“I'm not the type to generalise about an entire generation. I think the most general thing I can say, is that things are way more dispersed, and way more de-centralised than they were twenty years ago. I don't really feel like people talk about my generation the way people would talk about Generation X in their early 90's when Nirvana blew up. I feel like there was an easier, more coherent narrative to find, than you can now.”
“It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.”
“Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.”
“I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.”

Source : Diego Rivera, with Gladys March (2012). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.18, Courier Corporation
“Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.”
“I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.”

Source : Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “Becoming Chloe”, p.39, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.”

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