"Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made."

-- Larry McMurtry

#People Quotes #Stories Quotes #Urban Quotes

“Was it possible I'd labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn't overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I'd labeled him, not even knowing him. Just because girls went gaga over him andevery boy wanted to be him didn't make him a jerk. The only jerk in the room happened to be the judgmental, elitist female. Me.”
“I'd be lying if I said, 'No,' to wanting a lot of kids.”
“I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.”

Source : "Martin Lawrence: He's Got Jokes". Interview with Regina R. Robertson, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.
“From person's movement patterns I can tell a lot of things: if pain is in the body, whether someone is depressed, what age they are. When you see someone whose chest is withdrawn, their deltoids are rolled forward. That's someone whose history has broken them, in a sense. You can recognize that movement of pulling away and protecting the heart across all cultures.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression. You are never the master of the story, just a part of it. But writing and directing give you the power of the gods.”
“I met a guy who had the same theory and wrote a book about it. His name is Walter C. Wright Jr. His book is called Gravity Is a Push. I wrote to him and told him about my father, and he said he wished he'd met him. My father died quite a while ago.”
“You could say that the Hell's Angels have a bad reputation, then you talk to a biker, and he's trying to join it. It just depends upon who you're talking to about reputation.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”

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