"Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, arent they?"

-- Andrea Arnold

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name. We might also get used to recognizing the fact that there is some of the saint in all of us.”
“I've never needed government to hold my hand.”

Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011
“Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries”

Source : Albert Pike (1950). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.24, Library of Alexandria
“Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress”
“Those in positions of scientific authority in the West who have collaborated with this new Lysenkoism because they felt they must be politically correct, and/or because of the money, publicity, and recognition to be gained, have disgraced themselves and the integrity of their institutions, organizations and publications.”
“I stick my neck out for nobody.”
“Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.”

Source : "A wise guy playing the fool to win". Sunday Times, July 16, 2000.
“The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.”

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