"I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character."

-- Dick Schaap

#Character Quotes

“I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America”
“Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.”
“Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don't”
“The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.”
“To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.”

Source : Jan Morris (2011). “Conundrum”, p.26, Faber & Faber
“One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.”

Source : "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, archive.nytimes.com. 1989.
“After 9/11, I was like many people in New York City and got a little depressed. I began to check myself into The Waldorf Astoria for room service, movies and just to chill. I wanted to contribute to the great city of Manhattan.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.
“The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.”

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