"What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?"

-- Chief Seattle

#Lonely Quotes #Nature Quotes #Night Quotes

“Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.”
“My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.”
“The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.”

Source : Percy Lubbock (2007). “The Craft of Fiction”, p.55, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“At Baalbek Nuts I bought pistachios from the Lebanese owners, who answered my request for their thoughts on the war with the typically Lebanese response of no problem. It's a lie, as we all knew.”
“If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.”
“I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.”
“Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.”
“If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.”

Source : "TV Mastermind Jane Espenson: From to to Evil Queens". Interview with Neal Broverman, www.advocate.com. October 27, 2011.

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