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Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#confided #experience #getting #hasn #heads

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#build #chance #democracy #enough #explain

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#discharged #express #food #gratitude #hand

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#back #basically #draft #faxes #first

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#because #believe #certainly #common #computer

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#high #high school #i #onto #professional

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#characters #choose #else #everyone #fair

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#alone #before #best #daily #days

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#experienced #getting #got #had #head

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#genre #look #movie #movies #old