"Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life." "How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?" Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. "Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled."

-- Cinda Williams Chima

#Flower Quotes #Opponents Quotes #Said Quotes

“I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.”
“There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world.”

Source : "Europe's contempt for other cultures can't be sustained" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.
“Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.”
“I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.”
“I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (I know, I know: he was quoting the Psalms, and who quotes a poem when being tortured? The words arenâ€™t the point. The point is he felt human destitution to its absolute degree; the point is that God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.)”

Source : "My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer". Book by Christian Wiman (p. 155), www.huffingtonpost.com. 2013.
“As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.”
“I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?”
“No man weighs his words who has but a moment to live.”

Source : Philip Moeller (1918). “Five Somewhat Historical Plays”

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