"We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great."

-- Christine Gregoire

#Opportunity Quotes #Vision Quotes #Needs Quotes

“...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's spirits, for example, with a fun scene... Before writing a scene of pure despair, we must go through scenes of hope. And indeed, when I write, all of this amuses me very much.”
“There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.”
“You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'”
“Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life”
“Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.”

Source : Nelson Algren (2011). “The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition”, p.455, Seven Stories Press
“I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.”
“Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone”
“Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.”

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