"Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies."

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Oren Peli

#Matter Quotes #Borrowing Quotes

“When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?”
“You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.”
“All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with excessive symbolism is extraneous, and from my point of view, useless art. Anyone who understands life needs no handbook of poetry or philosophy to tell him what it is.”

Source : Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.97, Hol Art Books
“Things won't start your life for you. I'm learning that. You have have to start your life for yourself.”
“The immense wealth of doctrine and institutions can become a handicap if we are trying to present all of that to a person who has lost all contact with the Church and no longer knows who Jesus is. That would be like clothing a baby with one of those enormous, heavy brocaded copes that priests and bishops used to wear. Instead, it is necessary to help this person establish a relationship with Jesus.”
“I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.”
“Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.”
“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.”

Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.560, Penguin

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