"As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water ."

-- Peter J. Carroll

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“Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. "Hello?" Win?" Yeah." You okay?" Hello?" Win?" Yeah." What took you so long to answer the phone?" Hello?" Win?" Who is this?" Myron." Myron Bolitar?" How many other Myrons do you know?" Myron Bolitar?" No, Myron Rockefeller." Something's wrong," Win said. What?" Terribly wrong." What are you talking about?" Some ***** is calling me at seven in the morning pretending to be my best friend." Sorry, I forgot the time.”
“There are several types of movie space, the three most important being: (1) the field of the screen, (2) the psychological space of the actor, and (3) the area of experience and geography that the film covers.”

Source : Manny Farber (2009). “Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies”, p.3, Da Capo Press
“I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.”

Source : "Clean Your Grill, And Other Hot Holiday Tips From Food Network's Alton Brown". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 26, 2012.
“Let us never forget that authentic power is service, which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.”
“The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.”
“I feel like my home is stage acting.”
“Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first TV dinner. The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised. The term "under God" was inserted into the "Pledge of Allegiance." Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiered. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And Bob Dylan was bar mitzvahed.”

Source : Source: fourtwonine.com
“Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.”

Source : "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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