"To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor."

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Source : John Luther Long (2014). “Madame Butterfly”, p.64, John Luther Long

John Luther Long

“In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.”
“There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.”
“I broke down. I hid under the bed because I was afraid that somebody was going to come for me. I donâ€™t know who that someone was but I was just so scared. Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.”
“Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral”
“My intention is to do more films.”

Source : Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 26, 2011.
“We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.”
“I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!”

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