"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Peg Quotes

“I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.”
“When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!”
“I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then if I can find a story that has a raison d'etre behind it that I feel is important then that's the best for me.”

Source : "Denzel Washington and Norman Jewison - part two". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2000.
“There are certain jobs I don't take because I feel no connection to the person. But if somebody is open with me, and honest about their motivations, and has some level of self- awareness, then I'm going to understand them.”

Source : "Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.
“I don't fail. I succeed at finding out what doesn't work.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life.”
“The relationship I have with my kids is beautiful.”
“I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.”

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