"By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life."

-- Margaret Mahy

#Taken Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Lifetime Quotes

“In the right situation, acting on television can be extraordinarily satisfying creatively. But that's incredibly rare. Otherwise, it can be like working in a really remunerative coal mine. That's the down side.”
“One should practice much sense, not much learning.”
“Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.”
“I didn't make a film because I wanted a starring role. I made a film because I wanted to tell a story and I wanted to prove that I could direct.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back to the porch, and snuggled up by his side.”

Source : Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.234, Laurel Leaf
“I feel fortunate to have made records during an era where people actually bought music. But I have friends in struggling up-and-coming bands that will certainly never be able to pay the rent, because music has been devalued.”
“When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.”
“The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.”

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