"If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act."

-- Billy Wilder

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.”
“We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.”
“Is magic not enough to live for?”
“Oh beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man we elected king.”
“But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.”
“What I'm asserting is that we are looking at bisexuality the wrong way, making the identity entirely dependent on someone other that the bisexual person him- or herself. If I'm dating a man, I'm straight. If I'm dating a woman, I'm a lesbian. But sexuality is not who you sleep with, it's who you are. It doesn't change according to who is standing next to you.”

Source : Jennifer Baumgardner (2008). “Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple that to be complicated during solos.”
“I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.”

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