"I can, therefore I am."

-- Simone Weil

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Encouraging Quotes

“Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.”
“Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.”
“Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!”
“Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.”
“Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.”
“Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.”
“U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.”
“I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so fed up with the world of fiction, which is so money-centered.”

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