"I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied."

-- Ernest Hemingway

#Farewell Quotes #Writing Quotes #Arms Quotes

“To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It's the choices you make as an actor. It's never about, "I want to do a comedy script." I can't think of it that way. And besides, some of those movies, those comedy movies, I can't even watch them.”
“People need help to change the way they eat... this is what government is for in my opinion.... We should make food an issue for everyone who runs for office.”
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”
“Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.”
“Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.”
“We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the middle of my head. The guitarists had pink hair. We weren't playing CBGB's either, we were playing Statesborough, Georgia, for cowboys on penny beer night. We used to keep crowbars onstage when fights would break out. Those were really wild times.”
“When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.”
“Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.”

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