"I like actors - I used to be one."

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Charlie Kaufman

#Actors Quotes #Used Quotes

“Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.”
“I might have been too tiny for it, but I wanted to become a professional tennis player. I was a pretty good tennis player as a kid, but ultimately I just don't think that I have that jock mentality needed for sports.”
“We are the creators, not only of our own destiny, but ultimately we are the creators of universal destiny. We are the creators of the universe.”

Source : "The Secret". Documentary, 2006.
“I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World... It's a day that never dies.”
“Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.”

Source : Agnes Martin, Heinz Liesbrock, Josef-Albers-Museum (2004). “Agnes Martin: the islands”, Richter Verlag
“What happened to goodbye?”
“When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.”
“I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.”

Source : "Karen O’s Psycho Opera Will Be A ‘Psychedelic Ride Laced With Catharsis’". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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