"If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation."

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Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com

Frederick Busch

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Eighteen Years Old Quotes

“What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.”
“Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.”
“It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.”

Source : Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Hard Love”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.”
“Theres something about a holiday that isnt all about how much money you spend.”
“My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!”
“'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.”
“What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.”

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