"In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you."

-- Jehane Noujaim

#People Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.”
“The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.”
“Next, take a look at the quality of the people who surround you. Do these people back you emotionally, or not? If they don't back you, are they at least passive? If not, get rid of them. Sometimes it is hard to drop off your mates at the great bus stop of life. But remember, your energy will only rise in direct relationship to the number of things you are able to get rid of - not to the things you acquire. By getting rid of things, attitudes, encumbrances, and blocks of one kind or another, things fly.”

Source : Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.150, Hay House, Inc
“I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.”
“There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.”
“I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.”
“I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.”

Source : Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.17, Random House
“It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.”

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