"I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture."

-- Alejandro Jodorowsky

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression,”
“I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not all I'm interested in. In that sense, it's maybe a little misleading. I don't expect to make another movie about films, but I may continue to write about them.”
“I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.”
“No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.”

Source : 4 December 1941; quoted in David McCullough, Truman (1992).
“The biggest obstacle that you can have is all inside your head, so I try every day to be optimistic and keep dreaming about great things!”
“We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.”
“Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.”

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