"Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind."

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Christine Sneed

#Writing Quotes #Historical Quotes #Mind Quotes

“A Race car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samotracia”
“Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.”
“What we've got is the wholesale embrace of fracking domestically, internationally and for export. And this couldn't be further from what we really need to do to address climate change.”

Source : "Living on 'Gasland:' Q&A with Documentary Filmmaker Josh Fox". Interview with Denise Chow, www.livescience.com. July 8, 2013.
“Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent in the Sanctuary”, p.297, MIRA
“I still hate [the Eagles]â€¦. Thereâ€™s levels of evil in it to me.”
“I've never been in a ditch so low that a run wouldn't pop me out of it.”
“In different countries the basis of resistance takes different forms, but it comes chiefly from the conservative groups. Hence it becomes increasingly difficult to go on spending in the presence of persisting deficits and rising debt. Some form of spending must be found that will command the support of the conservative groups. Political leaders, embarrassed by their subsidies to the poor, soon learned that one of the easiest ways to spend money is on military establishments and armaments, because it commands the support of the groups most opposed to spending.”

Source : John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”
“The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.”

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