"Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories."

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Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

Melissa Harris-Perry

#Powerful Quotes #Stories Quotes #Film Quotes

“Solve 90% of the problem as simply as you can, and then remove the other 10% from the problem requirements.”
“Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.”

Source : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
“Try to overcome your doubt. Believe you are beautiful. Look at yourself through someone else's green eyes. Believe someone out there will find you and kiss your skin until you can feel it blister with the heat. Believe in something bigger than your problems and you will be saved.”
“Ive always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.”
“For they both were solitary, She on earth and he is heaven. And he wooed her with caressed, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine -Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
“Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.”
“How wise are thy commandments, Lord. Each of them applies to somebody I know.”
“... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1924). “The Everlasting Stain”

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