"Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please."

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Rian Johnson

#Kids Quotes #Piano Quotes #Like You Quotes

“When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.”
“Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!”
“To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.”
“All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?”
“When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.”
“Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple!”

Source : Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1868). “The College, the Market, and the Court: Or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law”, p.9
“We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke a thought aloud, 'Why doesn't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrads, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.”

Source : Speech at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895.
“A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.”

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