"The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot."

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Source : Chris Lynch (2012). “Angry Young Man”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

Chris Lynch

#World Quotes #Helping Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“The reaction I got from Sônia [Braga] in less than 48 hours after I sent her the script [Aquarius] was so genuine that it left me stunned. Often when you show people scripts, you get polite, absent-minded reactions, as well as exclamations of "What the f - k is this?".”
“Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.”
“As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.”
“Today's photographers think differently. Many can't see real light anymore. They think only in terms of strobe - sure, it all looks beautiful but it's not really seeing. If you have the eyes to see it, the nuances of light are already there on the subject's face. If your thinking is confined to strobe light sources, your palette becomes very mean - which is the reason I photograph only in available light.”
“My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.”
“According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.”
“People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.”

Source : Georgette Heyer (2010). “Death in the Stocks”, p.43, Random House
“It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.”

Source : "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

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