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“I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.”
Source : "Q&A: Trevor McDonald" by Rosanna Greenstreet, December 31, 2010.
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“Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.”
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“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”
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“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.”
Source : Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.86, Shambhala Publications
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“For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.”
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“Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.”
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“If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.”