"When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure."

-- Dermot Healy

#Teacher Quotes #Cities Quotes #Two Quotes

“There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.”
“In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary" things. In screenwriting, I don't have that guilt because story is the only thing. Character, dialogue, everything else - they feed into and drive story.”
“Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.”
“A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.”
“Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!”
“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”
“I donâ€™t care what people thinkâ€¦I learned a long time agoâ€¦I was 19 and had a very traumatic experienceâ€¦.and I learned that I have to go to bed with myself at night and that I have to please myselfâ€¦and as long as I donâ€™t go out of my way to offend anybody that I love, upset my mother or my husbandâ€¦Iâ€™ll do my own thing. And if the public doesnâ€™t like it, itâ€™s their problem, not mine.”
“Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.”

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