“We have free elections. Everybody can vote, we fought for that, we brag about that and we know we're going to have a winner and we're going to have a loser.” KnowsVoteElectionWinnerLoserBragFree Elections Author:Jim Brown
“My point is, if we respect the winner and approach that person, have access to that person and that person will look at what we are presenting, that is not too bad.” IfsLooksPersonsApproachAccessWinnerPresenting Author:Jim Brown
“I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand the history of slavery and all those things. But I'm not a victim. I can vote, I can participant. I can invest my money. I can invest my time. And that's what I'm doing. I'm not working for anybody. I'm not making any money doing what I'm doing. I'm doing it because someone did it for me.” PersonsI CanCertainCultureDealsColorVoteVictimSlaveryMy TimeParticipants Author:Jim Brown
“During the campaign [Donald Trump] talked about reaching out to African- American voters in particular. He talked about inner cities in a way that did offend some people. Lot of Democrats. Some African- Americans of saying what have you got to lose.” PeopleWayLosesCitiesParticularTrumpDemocratCampaignsAfrican AmericanReachingVotersReach OutInner CityAmerican Voters Author:Anderson Cooper
“In terms of the people that President [Donald] Trump is going to have around him, the cabinet. Predominantly white, predominantly male.” PeoplePresidentTermWhiteTrumpMalesCabinets Author:Anderson Cooper
“I got hooked on TV westerns back in the early sixties when I was about five, mostly because my brother was addicted to them and wouldn't let me watch anything else.” WatchesFiveBrotherTvsLet MeMy BrotherSixtyHooked Author:Elizabeth Crook
“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.” PeopleLooksGreedInvestingVanityGentleCampingSmall TalkCampfireSweet Corn Author:Garrison Keillor
“[My brother] was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.” LawTelevisionBrotherInvolvedBiggerWestSatMy BrotherHouseholdMesmerizedGunfights Author:Elizabeth Crook
“When I started escaping to a neighbor's house to watch what I darn well pleased, it turned out to be The Big Valley. Every afternoon my friend and I would pour grape juice over mounds of ice cream and settle in to see what was happening with Barbara Stanwyck and Linda Evans and the boys in The Big Valley.” WellsBigsHouseBoysWatchesHappeningsMy FriendsNeighborIceSettlingValleysAfternoonCreamIce CreamJuiceGrapesEscapingBarbara Author:Elizabeth Crook
“As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.” IfsWritingBookSometimesHardMightNightFictionMysteryInfluenceDramaSellsHistoricalWesternContemporaryGenreSettlingHard TimesConsiderationHistorical FictionJournalDescribingStandpointBookstoresReviewers Author:Elizabeth Crook
