"While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life"

-- Laura Hillenbrand

#Escaping Quotes #Stories Quotes #Research Quotes

“Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?”

Source : "Sir Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2005.
“H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.”
“Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.”

Source : "Asquith". Book by Roy Jenkins, p. 22, 1964.
“The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!”
“Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.”
“You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?”

Source : The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
“He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.”

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