"America has tolerated inequality because people think they can get ahead. If you have immobility on top of inequality, then people are not going to be happy campers. If you're stuck on the bottom and there just isn't much churning in society and you're stuck there through your adulthood, that's not a nice life to look forward to."

-- Thomas B. Edsall

#Nice Quotes #Thinking Quotes #America Quotes

“I've been a writer for a long time but I kind of had to get rid of a lot of the things I learned in Hollywood but I kept some of them too. And things I kept were: don't be precious, kill your darlings is always good, give it dynamics - you don't want it to be all joyful, all sad.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The Midnight Palace is a great place on the web for the very best on Hollywood Classics!”
“Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?”
“Having a book is actually like a great master - helping to build a universe and unify work - especially in my pictures where there is such a strong signature, yet with a set of rigorous rules to it.”
“I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.”

Source : "Kelly: Live & Uncensored". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 7, 2012.
“If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries? What's the good of solving your personal suffering if the solution keeps you isolated from everyone else's suffering?”

Source : Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.47, Changemakers Books
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
“We all know Gael - when he's at his best, it's tough to play.”

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