"It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down."

-- Robert Breault

#Safe Quotes #Needs Quotes #Calm Quotes

“Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal.”
“A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.”
“I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough. And so, for a long time, that kept me from writing about it. But once I began, I realized it was just as interesting as anywhere else.”
“My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than that, she'd complain, Why can't they leave something to the imagination? I sort of subscribe to her philosophy when it comes to writing sex.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaulâ€™s research is extraordinary; his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful; and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure,”
“I was raised to pursue my passions and pursue the things that I love, and to just live life to the fullest.”

Source : "Fiona Gubelmann Interview WILFRED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2011.
“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
“The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it's a bad thing, but [(500) Days of Summer] Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets Spider-Man [as his next project]. Are you kidding me? You cannot win.”

Source : "Women Directors Nearly Absent in 2013 Awards Season" by Robert Abele, variety.com. December 11, 2013.

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