"The story [of Allied ] itself is the story I wrote, and that's what's great about Bob [Zemeckis ]. You have meetings, but it's meetings for clarity, not to change what they're saying or doing. He takes what's on the page and executes it so brilliantly."

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Steven Knight

#Pages Quotes #Stories Quotes #Bob Quotes

“What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.”
“Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.”
“I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.”
“A clear sunny day can suddenly shift to thunder and lightning, a raging storm can suddenly give way to a bright moonlit night. The weather may be inconstant, but the sky remains the same. The substance of the human mind should also be like this.”
“Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.”
“People who feel good about themselves produce good results.”
“Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.”

Source : Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.128, Atlantic Books Ltd

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