"Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon."

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David Brooks

#Unexpected Quotes #Film Quotes #Beats Quotes

“In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same twilight, we felt the same pull of the earth beneath our feet. We drank together and broke bread together. We might have made love together, if you had only allowed such a thing. But thatâ€™s all changed. You have your youth, yes, and all the dizzying wonder that accompanies the miracle. But I still see death when I look at you. I know now I cannot be your companion, and you cannot be mine”
“Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.”
“On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.”

Source : Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.11, University of Missouri Press
“My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.”
“Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.”
“I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.”

Source : "Malin Akerman Talks ROCK OF AGES, the Stalled Linda Lovelace Movie, and Playing Debbie Harry in CBGB". Press day, collider.com. June 16, 2012.
“Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.”

Source : Reynolds Price (2000). “Tongues of Angels: A Novel”, Scribner
“Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.”

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