"I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you a longer time to write that book, but it's not a race. That's another great thing about being a writer: you don't age out."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Debra Dean

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Marine Quotes

“A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.”
“When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be...”
“I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a huge event. We're due for a little bit of a revolution or a spotlight or a movement. Something that feels large, something that feels like the 60s. Some sort of unification.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“All men fall. It's but time and method that differ.”
“There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.”
“Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.”

Source : "Actor Diego Klattenhoff: On Knowing When to be Hard on Yourself and When to Let it Go". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.”

Source : Kenneth Burke, Joseph R. Gusfield (1989). “On Symbols and Society”, p.158, University of Chicago Press
“Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says â€˜Oh dear, things canâ€™t possibly get any worse.â€™ And an optimist says, â€˜Donâ€™t be so sad. Things can always get worse.”

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