"If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody."

-- Brendan O'Carroll

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“And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.”
“The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it.”

Source : "Hi, I'm Paul Feig, and I Wear a Suit Every Day for a Reason". www.esquire.com. September 27, 2012.
“I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.”
“When all mental activity around who you think you are is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled with its latest self-definition. In that moment, there is only silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize absolute fulfilment: the truth of who you are.”

Source : "The Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance". Book by Gangaji, 2007.
“You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.”
“An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty”
“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”

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