"I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it."

-- Michael Connelly

#Book Quotes #Hands Quotes #People Quotes

“Think of the most amazing thing you could possibly do with your life. Then say out loud, 'YES.'”
“What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.”
“I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.”
“People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think about yourself, directs your interest to your own body and what is happening to it. You don't reach out benevolently, filled with good will for others. You don't seem to care enough. Pain makes you a little person, not a big one, and not a nice one, except perhaps in the case of saints, and I've never known one.”

Source : Rae Foley (1976). “Put out the light”, Dodd Mead
“When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.”

Source : "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Cambridge edition, p. 108, 1995.
“So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion picture art was (and is) that it is too much an industry; and the trouble with the motion picture industry is that it is too much an art. It is out of this basic contradiction that most of the ills of the form arise.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?”
“I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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