"Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R."

-- Alfonso Cuaron

#Awards Quotes #Video Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.”

Source : Katharine Tynan (1922). “The Wandering Years”
“Love is the answer at least for most of the questions in my heart, like Why are we here? And where do we go? And how come it's so hard? It's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving, I'll tell you one thing, it's so much better when we're together.”
“Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.”
“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”
“We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of ***** to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.”
“The universe will pay you to be yourself and do what you really love.”
“I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.”

Source : "Rising Star: Christina Perri". www.seventeen.com. December 6, 2010.
“The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”

Source : 'The Great Tradition' (1948) ch. 1

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