"We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful."

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Source : "How the Worst Moments in Our Lives Make Us Who We Are". TED Talks, andrewsolomon.com. March 21, 2014.

Andrew Solomon

#Pain Quotes #Believe Quotes #Bears Quotes

“I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, "There's chemistry here." So that's how it happens.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Mickey Rooney Reflects on Night at the Museum!". Interview With Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. April 25, 2007.
“I feel there is something nice about not talking. Like you can say more by actually saying less.”

Source : "The Ides of March - Ryan Gosling interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of oneâ€™s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a cafÃ© one winter night.”
“Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.”

Source : Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”
“We want the ball, and we’re going to score”
“I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.”
“I have seen productions of Julius Caesar that set it in a modern, Western context and it just looks as though they're getting rid of a particularly cantankerous chairman of the board rather than the great leader of the world.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.”

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