"It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel."

-- Karen Russell

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“Whenever I think I know something is a classic, or an amazing song, I realise it's still so subjective, because you and your friends could be talking about something, say, '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' - an amazing classic song - or someone would be like, "'Hey Jude' is an amazing song!", and I'd be like, "I don't really like it."”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
“Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.”
“I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.”

Source : "John Lloyd Young Takes 'Jersey Boys' From Broadway To Screen". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wbur.org. June 20, 2014.
“My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping those pages was a waste of time. And I still believe that.”
“The dance world was a big part of my growing up.”
“I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.”
“Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.”
“If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.”

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