"Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences."

-- Katharine Whitehorn

#Motivation Quotes #Littles Quotes #Preoccupation Quotes

“People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.”
“The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.”
“Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.”

Source : James Sheridan Knowles (1823). “Caius Gracchus: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.23
“There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.”
“I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.”
“Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.”

Source : Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”
“What does one have to do today to reconcile France? Distribute public money - that's what some expect, especially the radical left. They think that you help people by handing them money. But that is a fallacy because it is not me distributing the money, but rather future generations.”
“It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.”

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