"My first teacher was Steven Spielberg. I worked on Amazing Stories. That was my first job, as a writer and as a story editor. Watching him and his command of the tools of filmmaking, and his admiration for writing and the story itself, was the greatest lesson I ever had."

-- Mick Garris

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“Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training, of the gym, of self-improvement. Iâ€™ve never seen a player in such good physical condition. Heâ€™s a gladiator.”
“[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for darkness was at all times countered by a revulsion which the unhappy spirit either dared not confess even to itself, or else rejected as cowardly and evil.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (1974). “Darkness and the light”, Hyperion Pr
“I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.”
“My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.”
“I am so glad we met at an undisclosed location over the summer.”
“It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family.”
“The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.”

Source : Teresa De Lauretis (1984). “Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema”, p.119, Indiana University Press
“I was pretty spoiled growing up, creatively and artistically; we were exposed to a lot of different things. I remember watching my brother's friends struggle to get to the level he was at musically and wondering why they were having such a hard time.”

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