"Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it."

-- Tom Bodett

#School Quotes #Writing Quotes #Als Quotes

“My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.”
“God wants to bring victory to a people who recognize who brought it.”
“I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.”

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“I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.”
“I think I'm just as good as anyone. That's the way I was brought up. I'll tell you a secret: I think I'm better! Ha! I remember being aware that colored people were supposed to feel inferior. I knew I was a smart little thing, a personality, an individual - a human being! I couldn't understand how people could look at me and not see that, because it sure was obvious to me.”
“We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.”
“In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.”
“Have you ever actually listened to golfers talking to each other? "Looked good starting out..." "Better direction than last time..." "Who's away?..." It sounds like visitors' day at a home for the criminally insane.”

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