"New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people."

-- Julian Ovenden

#New York Quotes #People Quotes #Brilliant Quotes

“If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.”
“I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?”
“Owen scores and breaks Lineker's competitive scoring record. Although this being a friendly it doesn't actual count, so he hasn't quite done it yet.”
“They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)”

Source : Stephen Dobyns (2015). “The Church of Dead Girls: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin
“In general, the bigger a mountain the older it is. The biggest mountains were built before any others, because when they were built there was incomparably more flammable material within the Earth. Over the many thousands of years that have passed, the quantity of flammable material has doubtless decreased.”
“In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'”
“I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals”
“I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young director who wanted to adopt Project X. Errol was a hoot. I loved talking with him. We were a good match, too, because we both kept joking that we'd found the only other person on earth more ambivalent than we were about the project.”

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