"Stubborn, snarly male."

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Source : Anne Bishop (2003). “The black jewels trilogy”, Roc

Anne Bishop

#Males Quotes #Stubborn Quotes

“I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.”

Source : "Take In Tilda Swinton’s Wisdom With This Beautiful Speech From The Rothko Chapel" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2015.
“Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. Thatâ€™s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being trapped in a room for ten hours with those characters. Think of your main characters as dinner guests. Would your friends want to spend ten hours with the characters youâ€™ve created? Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but theyâ€™d better be compelling. If not, your reader will be bored and leave.”

Source : "Advice on Writing". www.pobronson.com.
“In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.”
“They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.”
“It's funny: I spend time in the book criticizing social media, but I'm also aware that a lot of my success is because of social media. I can broadcast myself and my work to thousands of people that are following me or my friends. I do think that social media can be good for self-promotion.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.”
“There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.”
“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.”

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