"To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose."

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Source : Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins

Michael Dorris

#Stories Quotes #Notoriety Quotes

“Guided by film...we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things.”
“Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.”
“In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do, too-make sure they don't beat themselves.”

Source : Woody Hayes' commencement speech at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. March 14, 1986.
“If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?”
“I would like to do a sports movie.”

Source : "FUTURES | Sundance’s Golden Boy Sean Durkin, Director/Writer of 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'" by Nigel M.Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 20, 2011.
“I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]”
“I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.”
“We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.”

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