"To not dare is to have already lost. We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects, because things only happen when we dream."

-- Andree Putman

#Dream Quotes #Ambitious Quotes #Lost Quotes

“I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.”
“I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world.”
“There were a lot of races I was going to win at Milwaukee, but I had mechanical problems or something would happen, ... In the early years, it just took a long time for me to win a race. I got in somebody's oil one time and got in the wall, had a clutch go out once. . . so when I finally won one, it was a long time coming.”
“We've been waiting since 1918 for the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series, and ... if I had a choice between the White House and the World Series this year, I'm going to take the White House. How's that?”
“There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.”
“I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.”
“The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.”

Source : "On the Art of the Cinema". Book by Kim Jong Il, www.hollywoodreporter.com. 1973.
“In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.”

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