"I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty or forty years. But perhaps this is true of most writersâ€”the emotional storage is done very early on."

-- Marguerite Yourcenar

#Book Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Years Quotes

“Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. Iâ€™m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody.”
“The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.”
“Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.”
“In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.”
“The image itself is kind of the least important factor to me, though I'm still interested in putting forth an interesting image. I see the image as the screen laid over top of what really interests me, which is that depth of surface and that filmic quality that it has when you pass the piece. The idea that my pieces look like paintings, but are most definitely not, is really interesting to me.”
“The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."”

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“The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world was perhaps the most important decision reached in the New World. Everywhere in the western world of the 18th century, church and state were one; and everywhere the state maintained an established church and tried to force conformity to its dogma.”
“I am just another dot in the world”

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