"Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and find some stuff to love."

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George Saunders

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“Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.”
“In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that aspect of it which is important for us, the rest being intentionally or from necessity omitted.”
“The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.”
“You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.”
“Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.”

Source : "Ryan Phillippe and Terrance Howard talk Crash". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 05, 2005.
“The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.”
“I suppose I'm very aware of time and of memories and of enjoying life... not just doing the right thing and being a useful person, which I certainly wanna be and believe that I am. I hold onto my family really tight and try to be as good a woman as I can be in my life.”
“I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.”

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