"I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?"

-- John Mellencamp

#Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Guy Quotes

“Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.”
“Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.”
“I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I'm making politically observant films for audiences.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.”
“You'll find people less threatening if you hear what they're needing rather than what they're thinking about you.”
“The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.”
“... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.”
“Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.”

Source : Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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