"Normal is all relative."

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Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alethea Kontis

#Normal Quotes #Relative Quotes

“I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.”
“You learn a lot from your customers, and when your customers are also your owners, you learn even more.”
“I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.”

Source : "Interview: Producer & CEO Julie Smolyansky, 2017 Women in Film Chicago Focus Awards Honoree". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.hollywoodchicago.com. February 21, 2017.
“I have done some formal acting training, because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I'm still one of the worst actors and auditions out there.”
“Berlin's great secret is that he says exactly what he means; sometimes he hits a gigantic line both musically and lyrically -- almost Wagnerian in its strength.”
“... scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill ...”
“I've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.”
“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

Source : Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)

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