"For so many of my characters, they were political in their own countries and they risked their lives for certain political beliefs that they had, only to be brought to America where they're not treated like Americans - they're just not really treated like anything."

-- Molly Antopol

#Country Quotes #Character Quotes #America Quotes

“There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.”
“I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.”
“I spent time on set in New York and Berlin sitting next to Steven Spielberg while he worked, which was the biggest thrill of my life.”
“Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.”

Source : Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You never know what your opportunities are going to be.”
“Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.”
“Lack of charisma can be fatal.”
“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.”

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