"One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria."

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Source : Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

Delia Ephron

#Movie Quotes #Hysteria Quotes #Important Quotes

“If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.”
“Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.”
“And most importantly, ask more from yourself! This is the real key. Ask what you can do to help. Ask what you have to offer. Ask what you can contribute. Ask how you can serve. Ask yourself how you can do more. Ask your spouse how you could be more helpful, loving or kind.”
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
“What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker
“Did he dare trust this insane boy?”
“For every hour a mother gets to herself, a father will demand five times that amount for drinking with friends and acting like an immature dipshit.”

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