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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.
But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.
As an adult, I'll give a writer 50 pages. If the book doesn't interest me in 50 pages, I'll say the heck with it - there are just too many other things to read. A child won't give you 50 pages.
When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.
I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.
The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.
