"In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other."

-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Life Quotes #Past Quotes

“Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.”

Source : David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult
“I mean PJ - James Ransone - he was a friend of mine, he probably heard all this stuff, but for the rest of the cast [Valley of Violence], we mostly just talked about their characters and things like that. That was the business at hand.”
“I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."”
“Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.”
“I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.”
“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you”

Source : "I Watched Neil deGrasse Tyson Take On a Science Skeptic". Interview with Anthony Liversidge, gizmodo.com. January 20, 2017.
“Get inside her head. Get inside any character's head and ask what they want in this scene. And if you work from the perspective of what they want, there's not going to be any wrong answer. There's going to be some boring answers, but none of them are going to be wrong. As long as she has agency, then you're on the right track.”
“You may have problems to solve but for every problem there is always a solution. Itâ€™s a positive-and-negative thing: you canâ€™t have a problem without there being a solution. There always is. Your job is to find itâ€¦”

Source : Brian Sibley (2006). “Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey”, HarperCollins UK

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