"Everyone in the movie industry wants to win an Oscar. I don't think that's why you make movies. But winning an Oscar is not just about making a great movie, unfortunately. It's also having a good Oscar campaign."

-- Mick Jagger

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“When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete.”
“I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.”
“You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.”
“All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.”
“the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.”

Source : Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”
“Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.”
“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”

Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”
“Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these prodigies of conversion and marvelous holiness if they had not changed the flames of human passion into volcanoes of immense love of God.”

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