"There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his story, because most people aren't going to read a thousand-page book. But I feel like the rise and fall and the work [Mayer] produced - not just the movies, but the memos, the volume of writing - he's just so passionate, and that's really exciting."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Karina Longworth

#Book Quotes #Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Love is stronger than hate.”
“The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.”
“Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.”

Source : Richard Matheson (1978). “What dreams may come: a novel”, Putnam Publishing Group
“Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.”
“And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?”
“I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy without experiment is merely mathematical exercise, while experiment without mathematics will neither sufficiently discipline the mind or sufficiently extend our knowledge in a subject like physics.”
“My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.”
“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”

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