"I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life."

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

Danny Boyle

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“No matter what I do I'll always be Canadian. What happened with me being banned was not about the sport of racquetball, but about the organisation. Why am I going to allow people who are irrelevant to sway me? I'll never turn my back on Canada. I'm proud to be Canadian.”

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“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: youâ€™re falling to the floor crying thinking, â€œI am falling to the floor crying,â€ but thereâ€™s an element of the ridiculous to it â€” you knew it would happen and, even worse, while youâ€™re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didnâ€™t paint it very well.”
“Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.”

Source : Carol Orsborn (2010). “The Art of Resilience: One Hundred Paths to Wisdom and Strength in an Uncertain World”, p.25, Harmony
“Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.”
“I was a coward. I went to the war.”
“The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.”

Source : Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.98, Macmillan
“The key to serenity is trusting that the universe has your back.”
“We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.”

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