"Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin."

-- Harold Bloom

#Sympathy Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.”
“I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.”

Source : Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books
“My death could, in fact, save him. If it can't, no matter. It's enough to die of spite. To punish Haymitch, who, of all the people in this rotting world, has turned Peeta and me into pieces in his Games. I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. And he has betrayed me.”
“Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!”
“Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.”
“She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.”
“I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are going to be either positioning themselves or how they will be saying their words. When people goof during the first take, it usually looks realistic.”
“I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.”

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