"I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to."

-- Oren Peli

#Drama Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.”
“DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.”

Source : Bryan Sykes (2010). “The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry”, p.288, W. W. Norton & Company
“If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.”
“I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.”
“I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.”

Source : Joseph O’Neill (2012). “Netherland”, p.27, HarperCollins UK
“I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon ... shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.”

Source : "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (pp. 79-80), 1993.
“I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use. ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself.”
“God is the great janitor of the universe. Why things don't work is that we have a janitor in charge, and we keep looking for the landlord.”

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