"Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born."

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Source : Margaret Millar (2016). “Beyond This Point Are Monsters”, p.52, Soho Press

Margaret Millar

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“Everything that happens to you is self-created.”
“I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story greater than the sum of its parts.”

Source : "Meet the 2011 Sundance Filmmakers | “Mad Bastards” Director Brendan Fletcher". www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2011.
“Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors.”
“Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.”
“- With respect, Professor McGonagall, I'm not quite sure you understand what I'm trying to do here. - With respect, Mr. Potter, I'm quite sure I don't. Unless - this is a guess, mind - you're trying to take over the world? - No! I mean yes - well, NO! - I think i should perhaps be alarmed that you have trouble answering the question.”
“Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.”

Source : Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive”, p.245, Bantam
“Nature does not conquer the world to God. It never has. It never will. In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its grand expanse of prairie, its reach of river, and its exuberant productiveness, there is danger that our riches will draw us away from God, and fasten us to earth; that they will make us not only rich, but mean; not only wealthy, but wicked. The grand corrective is the cross of Christ, seen in the sanctuary where the life and light of God are exhibited, and where the reverberation of the echoes from the great white throne are heard.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 522), 1895.
“There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.”

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