"We are not beautiful because we fit the popular ideal of beauty, and we are not ugly or unattractive because we donâ€™t measure up. Our beauty as human beings is not derived from ourselves. It comes from a beautiful God."

-- Carolyn Mahaney

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“In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .”
“People don't understand that my films is not about being scandalous - it's about being critical of our own society.”
“A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madam, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'”
“Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.”
“I'll never wake up in a good mood again. I'm tired of these stinky boots”
“Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic, masks fall away, faces become vulnerable, receptive. Filmgoers do not defend their emotions, rather they open to the storyteller in ways even their lovers never know, welcoming laughter, tears, terror, rage, compassion, passion, love, hate--the ritual often exhausts them.”

Source : Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.7, Harper Collins
“I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces.”
“I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.”

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