"I start with the joke line and write backward."

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Source : "NIPSEY RUSSELL: 1924-2005 / TV giant with gift for glib, poetic wit" by Myrna Oliver, www.sfgate.com. October 4, 2005.

Nipsey Russell

#Writing Quotes #Lines Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the local residents, and the proof of that is the fact that those people have literally removed their masks.”
“But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?”
“Hope! thou nurse of young desire.”

Source : Isaac Bickerstaffe (1791). “Love in a village: a comic opera”, p.1
“The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.”
“Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward.”
“Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.”
“Curtis Curtis jackson..he's the fakest thug I ever did see”
“The truth was this: Love is a decision.”

Source : Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley (2010). “Redemption”, p.39, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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