"Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now."

-- Ernie Pyle

#Matter Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I get to be creative and to write: two of my favorite things.”
“correct English is the slang of prigs ...”
“I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.”

Source : Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.
“I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.”
“Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didnâ€™t need a man; be that girl who never backed down.”
“Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.”

Source : George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.195, U of Nebraska Press
“I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.”

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