"Where I came from, no one was a writer."

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Source : "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.

Howard Gordon

“Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace....”

Source : Prayer from Apollo 8 on Christmas Day, December 25, 1968.
“Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 11, 2014
“Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.”
“When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.”
“Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.”
“Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.”
“Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.”
“At the same time that she [nature] solicits him [man] to follow her not only into her open walks, but likewise to explore her secret recesses, she - fails not to reward him with the purest gratifications of the mind, because at every step he takes, new instances of beauty, variety, and perfection are unfolded to his view.”

Source : "Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science".

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