Jack Bowman Quotes

At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.

Jack Bowman

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FamilyHonorGrandfatherLivingLand

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.

Andrew Motion

AnimalPeopleThinkInteresting

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

Andrei Platonov

WantSoldierUpArmsWordScale

A lot of the novels I admire are 'admirably provincial.'

Melvyn Bragg

AdmireNovelsProvincialLot

Just being out in the world gives me ideas.

Michael Bastian

MeIdeasWorldOutBeingJust

I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.

Amanda Knox

WritingMemoirWouldDisappearing

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

Stone Gossard

MusicExperiencePeopleThinkYou

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

Tom Drury

PastEveryoneGripExceptPerhaps

People know I'll be sensational, not scandalous. There's a fine-line difference. Sensational means titillating the viewer. Scandalous means being condemned by the viewer for making unfair, uncouth revelations.

Robin Leach

PeopleKnowUnfairDifferenceBeing

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Rose Wilder Lane

LifeQualityEffortWritingDefeated

People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch Food Network,' and I ask them what they cook, and they say, 'I don't really cook.' They're afraid, they're intimidated, they know all about food from eating out and watching TV, but they don't know where to start in their own kitchen.

Michael Symon

LoveTimeFoodPeopleMeStart

If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.

Jay Weatherill

GrowthFutureWishWillWorkforce

There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.

Dick Durbin

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