"My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast."

-- Aeriel Miranda

#Hero Quotes #Grandmother Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.”

Source : Helen Humphreys (2010). “Coventry: A Novel”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company
“If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind,”
“It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.”
“I have literally no idea what it's like to shoot a 2D movie. I'd only shot things that were 7 minutes long with a video camera in my apartment with friends.”
“If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.”
“I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.”

Source : "Fictional character: Martha Gellhorn". "Hemingway & Gellhorn", www.imdb.com. 2012.
“As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.”

Source : "Minnie Driver: My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.
“In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.”

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