"There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else."

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Ethel M. Dell

“I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an encyclopedia, then you put the pages through a paper-shredder, randomly grab whatever intact lines are left, sing them in Italian to a Spanish deaf-mute, and then make story decisions with the guy via conference call.' But no... compared to writing treatments, that makes sense, too.”
“I've tried the female thing. I was in a movie called Dinner for Schmucks a couple of years ago with Steve Carell and I created a female character for that movie. And after a few months of trying her out on the road it just didn't work. I mean, I can think like a terrorist, I can think like a white trash guy, I can even try and think like an African American, but I can't figure out how a woman.”

Source : TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.
“London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.”
“Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.”

Source : Speech by Joseph W P Wong at "Hong Kong: Turning China into Opportunity" Seminar, www.info.gov.hk. November 06, 2006.
“Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.”
“The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time”

Source : "The Trial of the Germans : An Account of the Twenty-Two Defendants Before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 235), 1997.
“Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.”
“Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.”

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