"The drawings are terribly good."

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Source : Christopher Fowler (2010). “Seventy-Seven Clocks: (Bryant & May Book 3)”, p.187, Random House

Christopher Fowler

#Drawing Quotes

“The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.”

Source : Hans Selye (1979). “The Stress of My Life: A Scientist's Memoirs”, New York ; Toronto ; Van Nostrand Reinhold
“Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.”
“What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?”
“I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.”
“The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.”
“For me, there were a few things in the Spider-Man comics that I thought were really interesting. There's this story about Peter's parents and where he came from, and I thought that it was really interesting to explore the emotional consequence of someone whose parents had left them, at a very young age.”

Source : "Emma Stone and Marc Webb Talk THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, Honoring the Marvel Icon, and Why Andrew Garfield is the Perfect Spider-Man". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2012.
“Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is.”
“Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work ... for instance, to me, Mansfield Park is a story about servitude and slavery. Other people may have a problem with that, but that's how I read the book and so that's how I shot the movie.”

Source : "Weird Sex & Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena". Book by Katherine Monk, 2001.

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