"Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that."

-- Martha Plimpton

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Zing Quotes

“Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.”
“When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.”
“When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.”
“We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.”
“I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.”
“The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.”
“I saw her backstage and said hi, took a picture with her. Tried to get a convo going, but the kid had know idea wut to think!”
“If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner... A winner is somebody who gave his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can...who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn't mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means they've given it their best. That's a winner.”

Source : Walter Payton (2001). “Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton”, Random House Incorporated

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