Dacland Quotes & Sayings

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past. — Vladimir Nabokov

One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own. — Emma Donoghue

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head. — Jamie Bell

If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real. — James A. Baldwin

No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team. — Al Davis

The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs. — John Buchan

Now what's important is that they have an attitude. Everybody has a look, but not everybody has cultivated what their stage persona is. And so when you're dealing with actors, it just makes it more difficult, because you have to help them come up with one. You know, Johnny Depp has no Johnny Depp character when he's onstage. You haven't seen An Evening With Johnny Depp at Carnegie Hall. — Bruce Vilanch

And do come a little closer. I don't bite. Except . . . we've known each other for a very long time, and I suspect you know that's not entirely true. Is it? I — Stephen King

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you ... and then, the worse things get. — Frank Zappa