"I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way"

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Source : Blake Nelson (2011). “Recovery Road”, p.213, Scholastic Inc.

Blake Nelson

#Reading Quotes #Way Quotes

“In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character - the courage and heart - to see it through.”
“All great art is a visual form of prayer.”
“I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.”
“I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.”
“But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.”

Source : Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.
“Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.”
“The great fish moved silently through the night water.”
“Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.”

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