"I like Quentin Tarantino, especially the early films, but I'm a big fan of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges... you know, people were writing great dialogue back then. It's as if people only have the memory of the last 15 years. So, before Tarantino no one was writing witty dialogue? That's ridiculous. Why do we have to keep referring to Tarantino?"

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Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

John Michael McDonagh

#Witty Quotes #Memories Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.”
“We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.”
“You are my life. You're the only thing it would hurt to lose.”
“A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.”

Source : Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook (1920). “Plays”
“I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.”
“If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.”
“I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it.”
“I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.”

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