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It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. ”
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new. ”
I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance. ”
Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated. ”
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ”
Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington. ”
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? ”
Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal. ”
The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. ”
Strength of 100 men? I'd probably just get mad and hurt somebody and end up in jail. I think invisibility would probably be the best thing. I could be like, 'You know what, let me just see what these folks are talking about over here.' Then you could sneak into Rams cheerleaders' locker room. ”