"You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two."

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Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

Larry McMurtry

#Country Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress”
“Life is the only sentence which doesn't end with a period.”

Source : Lois Gould (1970). “Such good friends”, Random House Trade
“...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.”
“We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We'll take that for right now.”
“There were a lot of different things [in The Women's Room ]. I don't really want to summarize it in this way. It's about a woman's awakening, a woman who came of age in the '50s and is a teenager - actually, she's a little bit older - in the '60s and part of the women's movement and how she ends up there.”
“The brands that can connect with client in a real way will win.”
“Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.”

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