"The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918"

-- William Henry Vanderbilt

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“Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.”
“What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel...”
“Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.”
“I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.”

Source : "Man of the Cloth: Q&A with The Pillars of the Earth's Matthew Macfadyen". Interview with Joan Wagner, www.oprah.com. July 29, 2010.
“Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album. ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers.”
“The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.”
“Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.”
“Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.”

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