"No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin."

-- Peter Straughan

#Matter Quotes #Scripts Quotes #Twins Quotes

“I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart.”
“The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.”

Source : Beatrice Webb (1956). “Diaries, 1924-1932”
“When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals. . . . War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train.”

Source : John Rae (1834). “Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy: Exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of Some Other Doctrines Maintained in the "Wealth of Nations."”, p.123
“I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and olives, and peanut butter and marshmallow goo. So sue me, I like peanut butter.”

Source : Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.348, Macmillan
“You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.”
“Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition”

Source : "Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits". Book by Debbie Millman, www.businessinsider.com. 2013.
“If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you don't want to do that. You're an actor playing Hitchcock, so it's about how much of that you're going to do.”

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