"Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts."

-- Elizabeth George

#Character Quotes #Our Actions Quotes #Habit Quotes

“I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
“Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.”
“Oneâ€™s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is lifeâ€™s work.”
“I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.”
“Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.”
“Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.”
“Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.215, Broadway Books

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