"The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes."

-- Helen Dunmore

#Powerful Quotes #Stories Quotes #Longing Quotes

“The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.”
“The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.”
“I love being able to help and encourage my friends and I try to inspire them as they do me.”
“If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.”

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“I tend to be more interested in the trend pieces than who got a licensing deal for sunglasses, but that's not surprising.”
“It takes people a while to trust you.”
“I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.”
“I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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