"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere."

-- Sophocles

#Wise Quotes #Thinker Quotes

“When you have children, that's your main focus.”

Source : "Married showrunner Andrew Gurland is the guy laughing at the funeral". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. September 10, 2015.
“...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.”

Source : Sarah Caudwell (2009). “The Sirens Sang of Murder”, p.18, Dell
“When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set.”
“For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.”
“I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.”
“For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch.”
“Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.”

Source : Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.148, Penguin
“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”

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