"I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#One Day Quotes #Littles Quotes #Baths Quotes

“My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.”

Source : "‘Crash Reel’ Documentarian Lucy Walker Knows Where She’s Going". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 11, 2013.
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

Source : "Principles of Philosophy". Book by Rene Descartes, 1644.
“Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there.”

Source : "We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. October 3, 2007.
“Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
“But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, letâ€™s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. Iâ€™ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then Iâ€™m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standardsâ€”and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.”
“When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically. The main story that you see on the TV screen is maybe like the living room of a house. But there are various other rooms in this house that you will otherwise never see. But if you use the Internet, you find out what's in the attic. And if you use the cell phone, you find out what's on the first floor. And on another medium, you find out what's in the cellar.”
“I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.”
“When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.”

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