"Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despiseâ€”Vivian"

-- D.E. Stevenson

#Talent Quotes #Despise Quotes #Unselfishness Quotes

“There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.”
“If I know what something's about, and I can always have that touchstone, I feel like I can reach for really ridiculous humor and also go really dark in terms of the things I'm afraid of.”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
“Literally, people probably came up with a budget and said, 'It'll be cheaper if we cut down the prep,' but it's not cheaper, because then you're shooting, you're fumbling through the movie and you are prepping at three times the cost because you're quadruple-time as you're shooting and then prepping after you're done shooting.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings â€“ those turns of phrase or images of which you felt extra proud when they appeared on the page â€“ but go back and look at them with a very beady eye. Almost always it turns out that they'd be better dead. (Not every little twinge of satisfaction is suspect â€“ it's the ones which amount to a sort of smug glee you must watch out for.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“Men love women because they are the loveliest things on God's earth. Women love men because chocolate can't mow the lawn. Some men prefer to love other men. Equally, some women prefer to love other women. There is a word to describe this kind of behaviour. Love.”

Source : Guy Browning (2004). “Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges”, Gotham
“Even the best SEOs are not magicians. They can't simply place a site at the top of the engines when there are hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of others that offer basically the same thing, and provide basically the same information. If they could, you'd see a whole lot more millionaire SEOs.”
“Each and every one of us holds the amazing power to modify our life at any time we decide to do so.”
“By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?”

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