"There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer â€” because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it."

-- Tobias Wolff

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“We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Itâ€™s kind of like, I would say, maybe college recruiting. Iâ€™m pretty sure a lot more goes into it in the NBA. A lot more money is spent. Iâ€™ve heard stories, guys getting called right at midnight. Itâ€™s something that I havenâ€™t experienced. I may want to go through it. I havenâ€™t thought about it at all.”
“There's something about being there, on the set, in costume, in the moment, where you start to get a feel for the scene, which is not the same as sitting in your office writing it.”
“Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.”
“If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.”

Source : "Recall Election Claims Arizona Anti-Immigration Champion". www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2011.
“Jephthah called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, 'Let me cross over,' the men of Gilead asked him, 'Are you an Ephraimite?' If he replied, 'No,' they said, 'All right, say Shibboleth.' If he said, 'Sibboleth,' because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Fourty-thousand were killed at the time.”
“So I think if we want to turn the table around, more than thinking about how can we starve the Islamic State in terms of money, we should think about how can we maximise the amount of resources that we have in order to secure ourselves. For us, instead of bombing so much, which is extremely expensive, perhaps, you know, we should use some of that money in order to protect ourselves.”
“Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true. â€”Luthe”

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