Thompstone Arizona Quotes & Sayings

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better. — Laura Linney

Now I see things differently. It took me some time, but I know the secret now. Freedman Town serves a good purpose
not for the people who live there, Lord knows; people stuck there by poverty, by prejudice, by laws that keep them from moving or working. Freedman Town's purpose is for the rest of the world. The world that sits, like Martha, with dark glasses on, staring from a distance, scared but safe. Create a pen like that, give people no choice but to live like animals, and then people get to point at them and say 'Will you look at those animals? That's what kind of people those people are.' And that idea drifts up and out of Freedman Town like chimney smoke, black gets to mean poor and poor to mean dangerous and all the words get murked together and become one dark idea, a cloud of smoke, the smokestack fumes drifting like filthy air across the rest of the nation. — Ben H. Winters

Only when you are absolutely devoted to what you do, can you produce something significant in the world. — Jaggi Vasudev

To get the man off her back, she finally looked out of her window. She thought she would find patchwork farmlands, but they were already above the suburban sprawl that surrounded the city. It was twilight - the sky was full of color, but she didn't look up. She could only look to the ground, where streetlights were already beginning to come on. To Lindsay, it looked like a grid of computer chips, stretching out for miles and miles. So many people, she thought. Lindsay could count on a single hand the people who really cared about her. And now, outside her 747 window, was a brutal reminder of how many people didn't. — Neal Shusterman

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger. — Megan Whalen Turner

Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier, — Jim Shepard

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia. — Jeanne Moreau

So we went to the Zoo; & I daresay I could write something interesting about that
a pale stone desert given over to charwomen & decorators: a few bears, a mandrill, & a fox or two
all in the desolation of depression. — Virginia Woolf

But there was nothing beautiful about the word "brainwash". To clean the brain. To strip it bare. — Gemma Malley

Silence is so accurate. — Mark Rothko

Paris is particularly beautiful in the rain. It was just a nice experience for me, a pleasant experience, and I was able to present it to the world through my eyes, very subjectively - not realistically, but subjectively. — Woody Allen

This changes nothing. It can't. You are my friend, my king,but that's ... All you can be."
He nodded, but it was a gesture that indicated that he heard her, not that he agreed, which was abundantly clear as he said, "And you are my queen, my savior, my partner
and that's everything. — Melissa Marr

I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good. — Mac DeMarco

This time, his smile widened into a full-fledged, wicked grin that made him almost devilishly handsome. I looked away, not wanting my thoughts to inflate his ego. To distract myself, I concentrated on the scarred hand holding mine. His grip was light, as if I could pull away at any moment, but we both knew better. — Jeaniene Frost

I don't write every day. I write when I want to write. — Claudia Rankine