#ect

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. ↗

— John Irving

#building #craft #i #never #novel

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#defensive #democracy #fighting #fortunes #more

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone. ↗

— Swoosie Kurtz

#anyone #directed #i #i can #i love

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts. ↗

— Omar Epps

#doubt #instincts #lot #make #tend

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#class #come #decisive #defeat #may

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases. ↗

— Lance Ito

#biases #camera #consideration #courtroom #effect

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#desperate #many #more #seem #unplug

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles. ↗

— Swoosie Kurtz

#ask #director #first #first thing #i

I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade. ↗

— Wolfman Jack

#become #enough #i #lasted #long

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#american #current #exposed #format #fraud