"Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration."

-- John Schlesinger

#World Quotes #Daylight Quotes #Duration Quotes

“I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.”
“No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.”
“Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.”
“The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.”
“Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,/A secret that my daddy said was just between us.â€/He said, â€œDaddies don't just love their children every now and then./It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen.”
“The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.”
“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.”

Source : Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.118, Heinemann
“While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.”

You may also like:

Dustin Hoffman
Actor
Glenda Jackson
Politician
Jon Voight
Actor
Julie Christie
Actress
Laurence Olivier
Actor
Terence Stamp
Actor
Tom Courtenay
Actor
Waldo Salt
Screenwriter
William Devane
Film actor