"I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting."

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Source : John Davis Long (1956). “Journal”

John Davis Long

#Reading Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Navy Quotes

“I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.”
“It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.”
“When I ask President Marcos for two million dollars, at worst he wants to know whether he should bring the money straight away or whether I can wait for a cheque in the post.”
“Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten.”
“If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the design has to support the narrative. Storytelling is the most important thing.”
“I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm not ready for a masterpiece.”
“Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.”
“The reality is I'm kind of like an ocean. Everything is calm, calm, calm. I'm good. When the ball goes up in the air, the waves start rocking.”

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