“Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.”
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“Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own”
“Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.”
“The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is, individuals often don't have the resources to take care of older people as they age. This is something that is happening, and we have to deal with it. It was happening also in my life.”
“There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them.”
“Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.”
“I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn't realized it (the original book) had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. After much thought and hesitation, I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.”
“Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.”
“A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?”
“Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.”
“The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and an understanding of what motivates people, of what makes a good movie from an emotional place.”
“People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.”
“It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.”
“People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.”
“Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.”
“For morning news, people want to know as they are getting dressed, as they are getting ready to leave [for work], "what has happened in the world overnight?" Morning news is a sure-fire way to find out what that is. I personally love and celebrate the fact that you can go to bed and the world is one way and you wake up and it's totally different.”
“I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.”
“When I started out, maybe because I did Thelma & Louise early on - but people were always asking, "Are things better for women now?" I would say, "Yeah, I think so. It seems like it." Then a few years in, I started saying, "I think so. I'm getting a lot of good parts, but I don't know." Then eventually, I was like, "Google it. I don't know, but it doesn't seem great."”
“You've got to be very insightful about your brand, who you are, and what you mean to people. You've got to be able to inspire the whole organization behind that vision, so that every touch point the consumer experiences with the brand is reflective of that same brand promise.”
“The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?”