"The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me."

-- Garance Dore

#Reading Quotes #Self Quotes #Role Models Quotes

“I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to.”

Source : Michele Gorman (2010). “Single in the City”, p.17, Penguin UK
“Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.”
“Country music runs through my veins. I love it very much.”
“The students often like to talk about movies that they feel are Orientalist like 300 or Babel. They talk a lot about the possibility of U.S. aggression against Iran and the Iranian hostages being held by the U.S. in Iraq.”
“Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.”

Source : Steve Lopez (2010). “The Soloist”, p.66, Random House
“The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.”

Source : "Producer Joel Silver on Splice, Logan’s Run, Swamp Thing, the Apparation, Project-x, Unknown White Male". Press Day Interview, collider.com. May 22, 2010.
“The passions are the only orators which always persuade.”
“I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month.”

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