#i can

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions. ↗

— Richard Price

#book #close #different #i #i can

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes. ↗

— Richard Price

#constant #end #five #i #i can

I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day. ↗

— Emily Procter

#bad #bad day #cards #day #give

I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do? ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#doin #here #i #i can #i do

I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#i #i can #i love #love #people

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#developed #fantasy #films #i #i can

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#i #i can #least #name #names

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#form #good #good prose #i #i can

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd. ↗

— James Purefoy

#airport #grumpy #i #i can #important

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#feel #i #i can #i think #just