"But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'"

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Peter S. Beagle

#Thinking Quotes #Waste Quotes #Elbows Quotes

“I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.”
“My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.”
“I just started to want to be more hands on, and again, because of the nature of this job which was to evaluate the writing apart from the production, I got clear on what a director did and I became interested in directing, so I started to do that in the late 80s.”
“Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.”
“Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.”
“I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.”
“Drink from the stars and toss your hat over the moon.”
“Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.”

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