"When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice."

-- Vivian Gornick

#Writing Quotes #Thoughtful Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.”

Source : Walter Lord (2012). “A Night to Remember”, p.74, Open Road Media
“Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.”

Source : "Sandra Brown, author of 'Deadline'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 27, 2013.
“The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.”

Source : "Lawrence Krauss, Physicist, Claims Teaching Creationism Is Child Abuse And ‘Like The Taliban’" By Meredith Bennett-Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.
“A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.”
“People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.”

Source : "Brett Ratner: 'If it wasn't for Eddie Murphy, Rush Hour wouldn't exist'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.
“It's not by coincidence that a lot of protesters against the new presidency in America and in front of the Trump Tower, even in London... the protesters were 90 percent women. The image of the woman and the problem of the woman still exists. Not exactly in the same terms as 200 hundred years ago, but we still have the problem here.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”

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