"It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby."

-- Peter Mullan

#Baby Quotes #Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I tried to take every little thing and use it as an advantage. People were asking me how it felt to be in the UFC, and I wasnâ€™t thinking about that. All that mattered was Alessio Sakara. I had to win that fight. Even now I still havenâ€™t got time to sit back. Again, this is a must win, must dominate, fight for me in my eyes, and I wonâ€™t be happy unless thatâ€™s the way it goes.”
“...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.”

Source : Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.10, DoctorZed Publishing
“If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?”
“We can't always control what happens but we can control our response”
“Being Nigerian is a strong part of my identity. Being American is a strong part of my identity. And there are important parts of who I am that really have nothing to do with my national connection.”
“I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.”
“She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.”

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