Best quotes by Bobbie Ann Mason on World
Checkout quotes by Bobbie Ann Mason on World
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‟ I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out. It's a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town.
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‟ Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.
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‟ I have heard from many readers since 'The Girl in the Blue Beret' came out. The story of my airline pilot, former B-17 bomber pilot Marshall Stone, on his search to find the people who helped him during World War II has struck a chord.
- Bobbie Ann Mason
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‟ Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.
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‟ Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.
- Bobbie Ann Mason
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‟ My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
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‟ Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.
- Bobbie Ann Mason