"Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality."

-- Alexis Carrel

#Character Quotes #Personality Quotes #Indispensable Quotes

“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.3, Oxford University Press
“Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.”
“Marketing is the devil.”
“A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.”
“Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile.”
“It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.”
“There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.”
“I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.”

Source : John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.250, Macmillan

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