"Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage."

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Source : Leon Uris (1970). “QB VII”

Leon Uris

#Home Quotes #Writing Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor.”
“No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.”
“The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Wicked's Rue McClanahan Plus News of Cook, Eder and Menzel". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 22, 2005.
“April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.”

Source : Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.7
“And there's a period where everyone's buying those and it's really bad because no one is Larry David or Ricky Gervais. And then they don't work and networks stop wanting to buy them, but because they wanted to buy them before the producer wanted to make them, the producers are still hanging on to wanting to make them.”

Source : Source: www.dead-frog.com
“The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.”

Source : T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.766, e-artnow
“From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.”
“I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.”

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