"Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf"

-- Elias Canetti

#Deaf Quotes #Applause Quotes

“I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can grasp and embrace, that would cause him to move away from the centuries-old idea of the individual and individualism, and move toward a different concept of what it means to be human in a collective society. Unless he has that reason, unless he has a fundamental reason to do that, it's going to be very difficult to cause him to make that shift, in my view.”
“I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.”
“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”

Source : Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.61, "F+W Media, Inc."
“Life there was hard and it made people hard.”
“With The Host, I think the actors could be really big names. That would be cool. Id love to see Robert Redford put on a beard and be Jeb; he would be amazing... Matt Damon has some very Jared-esque qualities, and then Casey Affleck as Ian and Ben Affleck as Kyle. Imagine the interplay.”
“In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.”
“The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now.”
“I think the best coaches have their own style. That takes time to mold that.”

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