"Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason."

-- Angela Carter

#Reality Quotes #Reason Quotes #Overdose Quotes

“I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.”
“Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.”
“I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.”
“When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."”
“Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.”
“Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.”

Source : "The 2015 GLAAD Media Awards: 5 Powerful and Inspiring Quotes" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. May 9, 2015.
“I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.”
“How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.”

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