"Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination."

-- Daniel Defoe

#Doors Quotes #Vices Quotes

“Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers.”
“Working on television is therapeutic to me. When that camera comes on all negativity vanishes. I forget about the fight I had with my neighbor. I forget about the pain in my left foot. I forget about my dog dying. Performing, for me, is an emotional cure all.”
“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam
“There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.”
“I never made a film which fully satisfied me.”

Source : "Polanski: His Life and Films". Book by Barbara Leaming, 1982.
“Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.”
“Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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