"Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition."

-- P. L. Travers

#Running Quotes #Grandmother Quotes #Blood Quotes

“For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?”

Source : Leah Hager Cohen (2014). “No Book but the World: A Novel”, p.180, Penguin
“A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.”
“If Triple H asked you to jump off a bridge, would you? Because I think that's good for business.”
“There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.”
“The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.”

Source : "Bourne Legacy Cast Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.
“I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.”
“Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.”
“You win some, lose some, and wreck some.”

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