"Trouble's made us kin."

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George Eliot

#Trouble Quotes #Made Quotes

“. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.”

Source : Andrew Lang (2014). “Introduction to the Compleat Angler”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
“I think the most important thing to remember is that pain passes. And artistically, the pain is going to pass. It's what you want to express out of the pain as opposed to indulging in the agony-and-pain mantra of songwriting that became such a hit in the '90s and still, all the way up to now.”
“I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.”
“This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.”
“Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.”
“You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.”
“My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.”
“One day I received a call from my agent, he asked me to put myself on tape for a film that was being cast in LA. I was thrilled at the possibility alone.”

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