"I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently."

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Source : "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.

Lucas Neff

#Country Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Epic Quotes

“It's an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.”

Source : "Jencarlos Canela Records His Own Olympic Anthem" by Michael Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.
“The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.”
“I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.”

Source : "Walliams on love, sexuality and loneliness" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2009.
“From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility. From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful. From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise. And sometimes, from their envy of each other's special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.”
“Excluding citizens' voices from politics leads down a very bad path.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.”
“I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.”
“It is impossible to state in words how much this team means to me, how much Hulu means to me.”

Source : "Hulu CEO Jason Kilar to Exit" by Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 4, 2013.

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