Richard Flanagan Quotes

After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.

Richard Flanagan

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WordsWritingSayListenNeedYears

Every now and again, you just gotta hit something. Not someone - something.

Jillian Michaels

SomeoneYouNowSomethingJustHit

Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.

Joan Collins

EatingBelieveToo MuchI Believe

Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force.

Robert Green Ingersoll

IntegrityCourageGreatIntelligence

I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.

Matthew Gray Gubler

BeautifulSchoolWaitingControlYou

Ultimately, the success of America's market economy depends on trust. This includes trust between buyers and sellers, between lenders and borrowers, and between investors and the companies in which they invest.

Amy Klobuchar

SuccessTrustAmericaEconomyMarket

Learn to obey before you command.

Solon

LearnYouObeyCommandBefore

Comparing President Obama with the great leaders who have come before him is painful.

Steven Crowder

GreatPresidentHimPainfulCome

Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries that trade more and have more open economies are less likely to fight wars and less likely to have genocides.

Steven Pinker

FightMovingWorldCapitalismNow

It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'

Donald Driver

MirrorMeWinSuper BowlYearsBall

I was president of the show choir, I was kind of a geek, whatever.

Christine Woods

KindChoirPresidentWhateverGeek

Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.

Cory Lidle

MindGoalGoSometimesKindUp

So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about.

Cindy Sheehan

WarMeDieKnowServingWithout

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