"I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically - the unleashed id - but with a biological cause; I'm hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances."

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Source : "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.

Benjamin Percy

#Regret Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Alcohol Quotes

“There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.”
“It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.”
“What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave.”
“For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.193, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography.”
“I came into the world charged with the duty to uphold the right in every place, to destroy sin and evil... the only reason I took birth was to see that righteousness may flourish, that good may live, and tyrants be torn out by their roots.”
“Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.”

Source : Steven Spielberg, Lester D. Friedman, Brent Notbohm (2000). “Steven Spielberg: Interviews”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.”

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