"I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured."

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Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

#World Quotes #Use Quotes #Romantic Poetry Quotes

“The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.”
“I only want to do good projects. I want to make good decisions. If it's just a dumb movie, then no, I'd rather stay in school. But if it's a movie worth telling and that I think I would really benefit from, then I would like to do it. And that's one of the reasons I still live in Colorado. I love being with my family and going to school, and then when I come out to L.A., that is the time to be in the movies. People ask me the questions, I do the promotion work, then I get to go back home and live my life.”
“The marathon can humble you.”

Source : Bill Rodgers, Matthew Shepatin (2013). “Marathon Man: My 26.2-Mile Journey from Unknown Grad Student to the Top of the Running World”, p.274, Macmillan
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 30, 2014
“My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."”
“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
“It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.”
“Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.”

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