"Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'"

-- Adolph Malan

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“Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.”

Source : Alasdair Gray, Joy Hendry (1991). “Chapman”
“The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.”
“If you're living life from a place of fear, you're not free to take risks or pursue your dreams. If your energy is expended in avoiding failure or rejection, then that energy is used to stay safe, instead of being available to create the life you envision.”

Source : "Manage Fear So It Doesn’t Manage You" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2009.
“Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.”

Source : "Cameron Crowe for “Elizabethtown”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. September 27, 2005.
“His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.”
“I think when I'm cast in things, people take that as part of the package that I would like to have some sort of creative control and they know what I'm capable of, so they let me come on the day with my own ammunition.”
“... war reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that enough people, be they government, military or the man on the street, will care when your file reaches the printed page, the website or the TV screen.”

Source : "A war reporter in Homs is worth any amount of outrage on Facebook" by Peter Preston, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
“I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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