"I'm not happy with just repeating myself."

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Chris Cleave

#Not Happy Quotes

“From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor that I play with will bring people that have a similar kind of humor. I'll make new friends," or something. You don't even think in terms of audience or of money.”
“He [Mark Webb] is very savvy, technically, he's shot so many videos, he knows how to get what he wants. The surprise, of course, is that he's also an extremely humanistic story-teller. He's obsessed with story and character, and not just making it look right, which is a double-thred that's rare in directors.”
“If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!”

Source : "Making Dr. King a Pitchman, Turning His Words Upside Down", www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2018.
“Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.”

Source : Nicholas Murray Butler (1895). “What Knowledge is of Most Worth? ...”
“Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.”
“I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.”
“As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.”
“As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.”

Source : "Jim Starlin Kills The New Gods". Comicon.com, August 2007.

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