Midcontinent Quotes & Sayings

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business. — Duane Michals

I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad. — Julia Roberts

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like. — Sinead O'Connor

Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time. — Robert Cheeke

And so, by circuitous and unpredictable routes, we converge toward midcontinent and meet in Madison, and are at once drawn together, braided and plaited into a friendship. It is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it, but mutual liking. It is therefore rare. To Sally and me, focused on each other and on the problems of getting on in a rough world, it happened unexpectedly; and in all our lives it has happened so thoroughly only once. — Wallace Stegner

Your statistical track record for decision-making is somewhat concerning. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months. — Gregory Maguire