"I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in my head and I can write it down. But once something is really under way, I don't want to do anything else. I don't go out, much of the time I forget to eat, I sleep very little. It's a very undisciplined way of working and makes me not very prolific. But I'm too interested in many other things."

-- Susan Sontag

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“I think the best directors rarely loose their temper. I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like your failing or that you're doing it wrong.”
“I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. July 29, 2014.
“We are always children to our mothers.”
“Passion, I've found, is not so attractive to the observer as to the participants ...”

Source : Susan Dunlap (1993). “Death and Taxes”, Dell Publishing Company
“I love being called NTRs grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didnt try enough or maybe because I like it this way.”
“It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
“Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.”
“You're expected to be perfect the day you start and then improve.”

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