"No man is a man until he has been a soldier."

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Source : Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.104, Vintage

Louis de Bernieres

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“I'm not scared of doing movies that are just about entertainment. I'm not scared of doing movies that are really challenging and cover difficult terrain. I just want good experiences and I want to challenge myself and I want to just keep learning, as an actor.”

Source : "Exclusive: Joel Edgerton Talks THE THING, THE GREAT GATSBY, and Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama Bin Laden Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 25, 2011.
“They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way they seemed to sleep for twenty hours a day. But I envied them too. It was the kind of lifestyle I could relate to.We didn't sleep for twenty hours, but we gave it our best shot.”
“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear...”
“This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.”
“Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.”
“You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.”
“Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought about God was clearly a matter of human thought that can, in principle, be retrieved and interpreted by other human beings. A phenomenological approach to religion must, it seems to me, adopt the old adage: nothing human is alien to me.”
“Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.”

Source : Marty Neumeier (2009). “The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation”, p.50, Peachpit Press

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