"What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work."

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Source : FaceBook post by Jimmy Webb from Jan 12, 2011

Jimmy Webb

“I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.”
“We don't talk about that at all as a country. I think that most people assume that there's nothing they could do if a nuclear bomb went off in their city. And that's just not true. Most people would survive most terrorist nuclear attacks because the bombs would likely be much smaller than those we were dealing with in the Cold War.”

Source : "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.
“I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.”
“I loved working with Mandy Patinkin, I have to say.”
“Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.”
“A small gold plain cross was passed down from my grandma to my mom, then to me, and now to my daughter. It is always nice to own something that connects you to the women who made it possible for you to exist.”
“Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?”
“Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms”

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