"A setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback."

-- Dennis Kimbro

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“I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!”

Source : "Emma Stone: Riot Girl" by Jessica Pressler, www.elle.com. June 8, 2011.
“...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.”
“The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work canâ€™t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.”
“He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where it appeared he'd been chopping vegetables when the urge to stab himself through the wrist had struck. I slipped on the blood coming in, which annoyed me because that meant it was all over the kitchen floor.”
“The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits.”
“True values entail suffering. Thatâ€™s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art to contain a touch of melancholia. So melancholia in itself is a value. Unhappy and unrequited love is more romantic than happy love. For we donâ€™t think thatâ€™s completely real, do we?â€¦Longing is true. It may be that thereâ€™s no truth at all to long for, but the longing itself is true. Just like pain is true. We feel it inside. Itâ€™s part of our reality.”
“The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.”
“That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.”

Source : Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.119, NYU Press

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