A Quote by Joel Achenbach

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.

Joel Achenbach

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After Art Beautiful Beautiful Writing Characters Compelling Extinct Go Ideas Last Lasts Long Narrative Writing

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Joel Achenbach
American - Writer
Born: December 31, 1960

If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?

Kris Kristofferson

This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long.

Celia Johnson

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

Rachel Cusk

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

Melissa George

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.

Carla Bruni

It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long time. As long as kids watch it, anyway. But beyond this, sure, I would love to be doing film. I'd love to be doing more theater and perhaps even writing.

Steve Burns

Distance lasts a day. But Reality lasts a lifetime.

Laura Schlessinger

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

John Adams

Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.

Chanakya

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

Moliere

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

Robert Longo

I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.

Karrie Webb

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

Vincent Van Gogh

Wherever I go, I'm asked about my marriage. I believe this phase, where people constantly want to know about my marriage, it won't last long. Let me enjoy while it lasts.

Naga Chaitanya

What's love? Something that lasts a week or a month and that's all you can except? Or is it just that some loves have a short shelf life? You know, like yogurt: after a week or two they go bad. And how do you recognize the other kind of love, the kind that isn't like yogurt? The kind that's more like... I don't know, like peanut butter, that lasts forever and always tastes good?