Scott McCallum Quotes

Maybe politically it wasn't wise but when people have different view points I think the public has a right to hear it and the public has a right to make decisions based on those view points.

Scott McCallum

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The stories are what they are in my head. They take their own course and refuse to be influenced by anything or anybody. So I just record what I see and hope that people like it.

Jessica Bird

HopePeopleSeeHeadAnythingOwn

I've always been interested in listening to people's stories.

Jens Lekman

PeopleListeningAlwaysBeenStories

I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

John Lewis

BelieveHumanNeedUsHuman Beings

Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer.

Robert Orben

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The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere.

Sloane Crosley

LivePeopleWorldNowApartmentHow

I met a person on my rural tour in northwest Wisconsin who said to me, 'I feel politically homeless.' And we need to re-engage that person.

Tom Perez

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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

Russell Banks

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My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

Mary Badham

MotherTheatreLadyUpAlabamaGrew

I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me.

Molly Antopol

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The highlight of my career was being at the inaugural gala of Ronald Reagan, and I owe that to Mr. Sinatra.

Don Rickles

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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

Diablo Cody

HopeMyselfFindPossibleAlways

When someone is 90, and you've seen their entire life, you just think you know everything about them and that they must live a straight-laced life.

Claire Foy

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