"From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes."

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Neil Peart

#Eye Quotes #Fire Quotes #Light Quotes

“[A]t the beginning of November 2001, there was a series of meetings between White House advisers and senior Hollywood executives with the aim of co-ordinating the war effort and establishing how Hollywood could help in the "war against terrorism" by getting the right ideological message across not only to Americans, but also to the Hollywood public around the globe the ultimate empirical proof that Hollywood does in fact function as an "ideological state apparatus.”
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.”

Source : Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House
“Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.”
“Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs because our understanding of intimacy is so poor. Brutal work schedules, related geographic isolation, and the concomitant fracturing of families has meant that there is little time for intimacy, and even less to teach the necessary skills. But intimacy, the axis of romance, is slow, based on the sharing of a life rather than show. In terms of intimacy, folding laundry together or sharing the feeding of a child can have more impact than the most extravagant bouquet.”
“We respect everybody's individual opinion, and we have so much respect for veterans. We're probably one of the biggest movie employer of veterans.”

Source : "The Man Behind The Bayhem: An Interview With Transformers Producer Ian Bryce". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.empireonline.com. May 17, 2017.
“Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.”
“There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.”

Source : "How I survived divorce, the tabloids and Jamie Theakston". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.
“A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.”

Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". I, 35. Book by Diogenes Laërtius,

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