"Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search... for the sentence in which every word is unalterable."

-- Italo Calvino

#Inspiration Quotes #Writing Quotes #Expression Quotes

“Why do we tell stories? It's because we want to connect to people, we want to tell them who we are, we want to tell them a story that affects us, that impacts us. And to help a young filmmaker doing a short or independent film is my testament, I think, is my desire to really make sure that our younger generations get passed along all the elders' experience and to literally have the image - to literally carry them on their shoulders and say, 'This is what the world is. This is how the world operates. Let me show you how.'”
“This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.”
“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.”
“You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.”
“We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years.”

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“I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!”
“Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.”
“This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and bankers, a level of remuneration that is economically irrational since, as investigations in the US have demonstrated, it tends to be inversely proportional to the company's success.”

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