"I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I donâ€™t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape."

-- Peter Matthiessen

#Character Quotes #Smell Quotes #Land Quotes

“I like the feeling of keeping people off-balance and having the audience not knowing where I'm coming from or keeping that mysterious.”

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“I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.”
“I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.”
“... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'”
“As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.”
“My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.”
“A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.”
“I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.”

Source : Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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