"Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme."

-- William Cowper

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Care Quotes

“I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.”
“The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.”
“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”
“Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.”
“It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.”
“They just want to continue playing their little game of power. And I feel that us people have the responsibility and also the obligation to demand to our leaders to give us the pacifist solutions. To give us a world in peace.”
“I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.”
“My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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