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"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself."
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"Not to recognize God is to oppose the kingdom of love."
"An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd."
"But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier."
"The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer."
"But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed."
"The problem is not that we don't recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don't want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it."
"When you develop your gift, you will be well known."
"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."
"Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known."
"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."
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"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."
"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
"I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know."
"If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it."
"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."
"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
"I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it."
"I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women."
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