"Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war."

-- Sebastian Junger

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“I think we just have to find consistency and go from there.”

Source : Source: ftw.usatoday.com
“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.”
“When you go on stage and it's your show, you don't really have to work that hard to win that audience because you've already won them.”
“Probably I'm more of a fan of the literary references than the pop-culture references. But I do go to the pop-culture well quite frequently because people, I think, are sort of inherently ready to laugh at that. It's a free laugh almost. Usually, everybody gets it.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“There's good news and bad news about 2 Fast 2 Furious , the moronic follow-up to The Fast and the Furious and a contender for the worst movie of 2003. The good news is that it's better, albeit marginally, than Freddy Got Fingered . The bad news is that it's 15 minutes longer.”

Source : "2 Fast 2 Furious (United States, 2003)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2003.
“I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.”
“Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.”

Source : Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.19, Penguin UK
“Show me a novelist â€“ or, indeed, a reader â€“ who wasnâ€™t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and Iâ€™llâ€¦ well, Iâ€™ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much.”

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