"A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results."

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.”

“Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!”

“I refuse to give into the sad reflex of French envy because this envy paralyzes our country.”

“In a lot of cases, you think that the art director and the production designer designed and built this amazing set, when in fact they only built part of it and were able to extend it using all of this fabulous technology.”

“I love things that are brave enough to be nakedly about what our lives are actually built of, when you're wild about someone, or you love something, or you're a fool, or you embarrass yourself. And I don't think the answer is cynicism. Cynicism is not the cure for sentimentality. Cynicism is its own form of sentimentality. For example, I tried to watch Breaking Bad. After three episodes, I thought, I don't like this guy. I don't care about him. But you can see why people tell themselves that they think this is real. But real doesn't mean bad.”

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“You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.”

Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.484, Open Road Media

“The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.”

“Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.”

Source : Isaac Watts, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (1850). “Parish psalmody: A collection of psalms and hymns for public worship: containing Dr. Watts's versification of the psalms of David, entire, a large portion of Dr. Watts's hymns, and psalms and hymns by other authors, selected and original. To which are appended, the confession of faith and Shorter catechism of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.”, p.348