"You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel like one. I have spent my life in books; literature has deeply dyed my brain its own colour. This literary colouring is a protective one--like the brown of the rabbit or the checks of the quail--making it impossible for me to tell where literature ends and I begin."

-- Nathanael West

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way”
“It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.”
“Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends.”
“Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?”
“There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders. They're much less tolerant of female ambition, much more threatened by female power.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.”
“I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now.”

Source : "'Nashville's Callie Khouri Talks TV & Women". deadline.com. October 24, 2012.

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