"This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings"

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Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". "Network", www.imdb.com. November 14, 1976.

Paddy Chayefsky

#Men Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Stories Quotes

“What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting?' These are important questions, and they are very hard to answer using the language of art history.”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.3, Routledge
“The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It's the maximum challenge, but also the maximum frustration.”
“While I was coaching, I believe the motivation talk I gave my players that achieved the best results was in reference to their present game-day effort. I stressed the fact that today's performance could be the most important of their life. Yesterday's performance was already history. Tomorrow really never comes, so today's performance is what really counts.”
“What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.”
“I love ice, when I was in Antarctica many decades ago, I got to see a lot of ice. And the one thing that impressed me -because I love to talk about ice - is that it has a color.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?”
“The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.”
“But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.”

Source : Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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