"My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer."

-- Tom Wolfe

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“I used to wish I would be a painter or a violinist, where maybe I wouldn't need to travel as much. Or maybe if I were a writer, I wouldn't need to travel as much. It's the travel that kind of killed me. And the hours. I always pictured if I were a painter you could make your own hours maybe... work after the kids were asleep.”

Source : Interview with Liane Balaban, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2013.
“Most people are just fat and because most bodybuilders juice, they can get away with eating what they want and just monitoring calories. It's a horrible misconception and often sends people down a path of fat gain that might ruin their motivation and drive. Fat cells never go away once created.”
“New York is nice, but I don't like it as much as I used to.”
“You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.”
“We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.”
“I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.”
“And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.”

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