"With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character."

-- Olivia Munn

#Book Quotes #Character Quotes #Writing Quotes

“This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.”
“While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.”

Source : Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.96, Northwestern University Press
“Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mark Van Doren". "Quiz Show", www.imdb.com. September 23, 1994.
“What I've learned about that word is context, where the world is coming from - in the era the film is set, it obviously is used derogatorily. In 'Selma,' it was the same sort of thing. Of course now, in music, it's used in many more ways, including ways that takes the sting out of it. It all depends on where and when it is used, and how you look at it. But again in 'Race,' it is intensely disrespectful.”
“Many children fully realize their parents see them as astonishing creatures and incorporate that into their daily presentations. That is, they throw their stuff on the floor because if you are truly amazing you can pretty much do what you want. Right?”
“I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.”
“Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
“People who buy annuities, it turns out, live longer than people who don't, and not because the people who buy annuities are healthier to start with. The evidence suggests that an annuity's steady payout provides a little extra incentive to keep chugging along.”

Source : Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt (2010). “Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance”, p.77, Penguin UK

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