"I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around."

-- Ann Beattie

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.”
“If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.”
“Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.”

Source : Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.100, Courier Corporation
“I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.”
“Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.295, A&C Black
“I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognizes... because of a nose job.”

Source : "Let's Get Nosy: Who's Had a Nose Job in Hollywood?", www.foxnews.com.
“If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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