"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built"

-- Leon Uris

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Important Quotes

“Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.”
“The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.”
“I was a stuntman for over fifteen years.”
“We have determined enemies who will use any means available to take the lives of as many Americans as possible. They cheered when the Twin Towers fell. They dream of even larger calamities. They must be stopped. And that requires an intelligence system that finds them, before they harm us.”
“There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.”
“Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.”
“In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.”
“No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.”

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