"I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970."

-- Virgil Thomson

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Long Quotes

“The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.”
“There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.”
“All's fair if you have a really good attorney.”
“I love doing horror with comedy twists and I think it's a really fun genre.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
“A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.”
“I've been training with my mixed martial arts guy as much as I can when I'm back in L.A., so if I could do another movie like I did in 'The Killing Game,' with Samuel L. Jackson, that would be awesome.”
“Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of stories, our canon, shapes our lives. I believe it is a law of the universe that we will not rise above our canon. Our canon is part of us, deeply, subconsciously. And the characters and teachings in our canon shape our characters--good, evil, mediocre, or great.”

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