"Particular lies may speak a general truth."

-- George Eliot

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“Write only of what is important and eternal.”
“Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.”

Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.66, Random House
“Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characters stand in for everybody, so actions take on fairytale significance. And the writing has to be pared down to represent people as types, too.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 5, 2011.
“As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.”
“It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation, and pastiche no longer needs any special name. Now this is simlpy the basic logic of cultural production.”
“I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you work on getting better at something, don't do it half speed”

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