"The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!"

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Source : Ford Madox Ford (2012). “It Was the Nightingale”, p.128, Carcanet

Ford Madox Ford

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“Across the San Joaquin valley, across California, across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who work in the fields - there you will see our flags - with the black eagle with the white and red background, flying. Our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain.”
“While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: how much more we expect of companies than of ourselves.”
“A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.”
“If Iâ€™d been someone else in a different world Iâ€™d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.”
“Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.”

Source : "Fictional character: Hedley Lamarr". "Blazing Saddles", www.imdb.com. 1974.
“I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living - will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother and a Wicked Witch.”

Source : Lucinda Riley (2011). “The Girl on the Cliff”, p.407, Penguin UK
“I still talk to my mom every day and she passed away when I was 28. And I still talk to my dad. The reality is that they're with you forever; the bond continues and they're there to help you and guide you. The best coaches I ever had, the best teachers, my parents, they all made it safe for me, not by being warm and fuzzy all the time, but by loving me so much, they were willing to make me better.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.”

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