"I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say."

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Catherine Brady

#Writing Quotes #Past Quotes #Arbitrary Quotes

“I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it.”
“If more women would watch women's sports on TV it would urge [TV] executives to put more on.”
“Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.”
“I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.”
“But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.”

Source : Bill Simmons (2009). “The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy”, p.44, ESPN
“Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
“We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country.”

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