"Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear."

-- Charles Stanley

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“Romantic comedies, if done badly, can be catastrophic.”
“Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.”

Source : "The American Scholar Winter", 1943/4 issue, (pp. 35-44), 1943.
“To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.”
“Someone once said, 'That place is engulfed in darkness'- however that does in no way mean that there was never any light.”
“A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.”
“Ultimately people don't watch shows because of how realistic they are. They watch them because of the same dramatic elements that have always made stories interesting. And fundamentally if those elements don't work, no amount of reality is going to be enough to keep people watching a show.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly Leaves”, p.12
“It's fun, I didn't have enough money as a kid to buy a drum set, so I had to do something. I would mimic the sounds. That was it. And it worked. It worked for years.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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