Richard Russo Quotes

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

Richard Russo

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CharacterCaringPeopleStartLong

My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

Jennifer Lynch

LifeDayGratefulHappyProblems

It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

John Tiffany

MindComedyYouLowWhereGet

The '80s convergence of comics' new adult sensibility with the movies' advancing technology was bound to catch the attention of even slow-on-the-uptake Hollywood, and this particularly was true when 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' became phenomena.

Steve Erickson

TechnologyAttentionDarkNewMovies

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Steven Spielberg

OpportunityBalanceGivingSomeone

'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.

Tom Shales

WifeHatWinGameDoingFox

I didn't sit around thinking, 'I'd love to play Luke Cage,' but when the character was presented, I did my research, and I was just like, 'This is a real gift. He's a great character, and I'm happy to have a chance to take a crack at him.'

Mike Colter

LoveCharacterGreatHappyResearch

I would suggest always getting behind a company that shares your goals, whom you have access to the people who run it and who truly care about the world. This way we steer the ship together and many fears can be let go of.

Liz Parrish

GoalsTogetherPeopleWorldShipGo

Chemotherapy can be a long, tough haul - for me, it went on for six months - and the best doctors and nurses become, if only for that period of time, as essential in your life as friends or spouses.

Julia Glass

LifeTimeBestMeToughFriends

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Jordan Peterson

LifeEyesResponsibilityAcceptOpen

When everybody's looking at you, it does your head in. When you're always on the inside, sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.

Dolores O'Riordan

LookingTreesForestYouSometimes

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

Bob Woodward

MeBookThoughtImpactSomeoneDone

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

Bobby Seale

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