"Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts."

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Archibald MacLeish

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“Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with different artistic visions and voices. And they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.”
“The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.”
“After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?”
“Weâ€™re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they donâ€™t read but, actually, weâ€™re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, â€˜Take this or youâ€™re going to die.â€™ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.”
“You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.”
“The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time to time. Some people choke under pressure. If you have that as part of your character - that you don't perform well under pressure - it's really important for you to know that. The game teaches you about that.”

Source : "A conversation with PGA golfer Stewart Cink". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. January, 2012.
“The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.”

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