"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."

-- Stephen Ambrose

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Way Quotes

“Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.”
“I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.”
“You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life.”
“I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?”
“The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.”

Source : Quoted in Plutarch Alexander, 40.2.
“I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.”
“The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.”
“If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.”

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