"The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion."

-- Raymond Chandler

#Powerful Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Self Quotes

“If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.”

Source : Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.149, One World
“Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.”
“When they [young people] believe they are the difference! That their voice matters and to use the incredible power each one of them has. I work with an amazing young man, Jaylen Arnold, who started a foundation and a movement to educate people about tolerance and to stop bullying when he was eight years old. He never ceases to inspire me.”
“One of the great things about the longer you do a character, the more the writers start to understand your kind of character ticks and things that you like to do. The most exciting thing I think for a writer is when the characters just start speaking for themselves. You sit down at your keyboard and just stuff starts jumping out of their mouths. They just sort of wrote the scripts for themselves.”
“There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.”
“The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.”

Source : Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2007). “The Battle of Evernight: Bitterbynde 3”, p.363, Tor Australia
“Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning-because that ain't the time at all...when you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.”

Source : "A Raisin in the Sun". Play by Lorraine Hansberry, 1959.
“There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.”

Source : Indianapolis Star, 20 Sept. 1914.

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