"When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard."

-- Stephen Gaghan

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“Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings,--a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.”
“Memory at last has what I sought.”
“We don't live in the old world. But I don't want everyone to know what I've done. We all know every kind of example we could throw out there. The world we see online is very spiteful, we all know about people who have had bad stories thrown at them. If we were more generous I might be more happy about the reputation economy.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.”
“A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.”

Source : Mariama Bâ (1989). “So Long a Letter”, p.41, Heinemann
“When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.”

Source : "Q&A: Senator Ron Wyden on NSA Surveillance and Government Transparency". www.rollingstone.com. August 15, 2013.
“A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh, loving us and dying for our redemption; and who is so affected by a sense of the love of this incarnate God as to be constrained to make the will of Christ the rule of his obedience, and the glory of Christ the great end for which He lives.”

Source : Charles Hodge (1860). “An Exposition of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians”, p.133
“Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.”

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