"There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen."

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Carter Burwell

#Being Happy Quotes #People Quotes #Irony Quotes

“Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable of all - herself, her family, and all of the generations of people who had lived in that secret place, their purpose, though they didn't know it, to make sure that human beings did not vanish from the world, no matter what happened above.”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.354, Random House Books for Young Readers
“I think you're always subjective because you always have a point of view, but I'm always sort of curious about what is the point of view I don't agree with. There is a truth in that because there always is.”

Source : Interview with Rob DeStefano, inflatableferret.com. September 11, 2015.
“I feel very lucky. I don't know what else there has to be. I'm happy, as corny as it sounds, to be living in a place where it's easy to live, easy to drive to the airport, easy to go pick up something at the supermarket and to have a circle of friends. Those were my goals in 1998, not to be queen of photography but to make a cultural adjustment to the West. And those are still more important goals to me than professional ones right now.”
“I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.”
“First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.”

Source : "Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.
“Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.”
“A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the work. You're providing the imagination, the words are turning into pictures in your mind, there's an active relationship that's going on.”
“Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.”

Source : "Casuals of the Sea : The Voyage of a Soul" by William McFee, Book II: The City, Ch. VI, 1916.

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