"Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Irving Thalberg

#Talking Quotes #Fads Quotes #Novelty Quotes

“Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think”

Source : Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.26, Penguin
“She couldn't "heal" him. No woman could. Events that far in the past just couldn't be undone. But perhaps he didn't need a cure, but .Â .Â . a lens. Someone who accepted him for the imperfect person he was, and then helped him to see the world clear. Like spectacles did for her.”
“Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.”
“You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.”

Source : Stokes v. Grissell, 23 L. J. Rep. Part 7 (N. S.), Com. PL 144, 1854.
“If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.”
“Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.”
“I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician....”

Source : Letter to Leopold Mozart, 8 Nov. 1777

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