"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."

-- Ann Beattie

#Different Quotes #Might Quotes #Way Quotes

“My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.”
“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.”
“Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding”
“But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.”
“I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.”
“In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.”
“We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.”
“If there are no books. There is no civilization.”

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