"I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!"

-- Paul Schrader

#Taken Quotes #Book Quotes #Columbia Quotes

“The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.”
“I want him to know I love him. I want him to feel that we both tried, but this was way too big for us: we aren't going to survive this. Even if I hadn't done what I did with Mal, almost all the strings of our marriage have been severed; waiting together to say goodbye is the last one. Once it has been cut, only love will remain. And it takes more than love--no matter how fervent, deep and passionate--to keep two people together.”
“I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!”
“Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.”
“I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action”
“While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.”
“All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.”

Source : Song: This, Album: Charleston, SC 1966, 2010

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