"When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea."

-- Steve Erickson

#War Quotes #Ideas Quotes #America Quotes

“Our fears can cause us to miss out on a lot of experiences and golden opportunities. Don't let your fears rob you of your life.”

Source : FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Jan 31, 2015
“I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again.”
“I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.”
“As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men.”
“People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.”
“McCarthy generally, as an individual, was a liberal. He was, in economic philosophy and a lot of other things, extremely liberal.”
“A big part of filmmaking, and a big part of the power of filmmaking, is creating characters that people fall in love with. So, those things, like the bloopers, create more reality and dimension, and the sense that these are not drawings or shadows, but they are living, breathing, thinking characters. That's the illusion.”
“As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.”

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