"What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet."

-- Grant Heslov

#Years Quotes #Long Quotes #Three Quotes

“Nothing good comes of reading other people's emails.”
“Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.”
“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

Source : "Why land rights for indigenous peoples could be the answer to climate change" by Bruce Parry, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2016.
“Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.”
“It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.”
“You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.”

Source : Lynn Viehl (2009). “Stay the Night: A Novel of the Darkyn”, p.30, Penguin
“Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.”
“There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.”

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