"I killed you once", the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. "You tried", Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying across the square. "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that thing you've never been able to kill no matter how hard you try. I am hope."

-- Brandon Sanderson

#Squares Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as guilty pleasure, there's only pleasures. And I do love that idea, because I do think that there's a pretentiousness when people make a list of their favorite things. I like to live a life where I don't think of my pleasures as guilty pleasures.”

Source : Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.
“The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things that are intensive or vertical, where we take our civilization to the next level.”
“That's where the inspiration was and so the more that you rewrite and the more you rewrite and the more the ***** are coming in to give you notes then the more problems you run into and the more it suddenly doesn't seem like the movie, the story, the characters changed, watered down and we don't have that with this.”
“Every time you play you have energy within you - universal energy. That's the energy that keeps everything together - the planets, the galaxies. Everything.”
“Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.”
“I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.”
“So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.”

Source : Mark Boal's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 7, 2010.
“I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.”

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