"I belong to the tribe of Levi."

--

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“You don't have to have one emotion at a time.”

Source : Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.77, Vintage
“I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.”
“The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.”
“If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.”
“My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I just want it to be perfect, which it will be when it becomes a Soviet Communist state'. When the left called for 'liberation' what it really wanted was to erase the human slate and begin again. Like everybody else, I see things that need to be improved. I just am mindful of the fact that they can be made a lot worse.”
“We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?”
“Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.”

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