"I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me."

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Louise Penny

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“Weâ€™ve all seen the same situation happen to two people. One looks for the lesson, sets their shoulders back and presses on while the other asks â€˜why does it always happen to me?â€™ You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.”
“What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years.”
“Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.”
“As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.”
“I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.”

Source : "JMS Gives New BEFORE WATCHMEN Details, Defends Project". Interview with Vaneta Rogers, www.newsarama.com. March 17, 2012.
“Poorpeoplestaying intheir houses aslong astill thevery fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons I perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down.”

Source : 1666 Diary entry, 2 Sep.The Great Fire of London continued for four days, destroying four-fifths of the total area of the city.
“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.”

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