"Empty the pond to get the fish."

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Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.44, New York Review of Books

Robert Bresson

#Ponds Quotes #Empty Quotes #Fishes Quotes

“I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer!”

Source : "Prince Philip gaffes: The Duke of Edinburgh's best jokes and witticisms over the years" by Nick Gutteridge, www.express.co.uk. July 16, 2015.
“Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.”
“Inwardly you are God, outwardly you are a person. Instead of thinking you are just a person, that appearance, you can awake to the power behind you, the safety within you, the source of inspiration and guidance at the heart of your human life. This enables you to be yourself even more so.”
“About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.”
“The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.”
“Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It's the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best.”
“When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.”
“I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.”

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