"My characters tend, if wounded, to be emotionally resourceful. Often they're in that way station between when loss happens and when it can be fully comprehended. In the meantime they're fighting to get something back, and occasionally they prevail in surprising ways."

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Tom Barbash

#Character Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Loss Quotes

“Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”
“My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.”
“Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.”
“However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.”
“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.”
“On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.”
“People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.”
“A couple of months ago I hauled my white ***** on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas, singing in front of a celebrity audience. If I can hold my own there, I can hold my own at Top of the Pops, trust me.”

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