"We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character."

-- Marc E. Platt

#Character Quotes #Filters Quotes #Stories Quotes

“But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.”
“With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.”
“We can live a life full and complete, thinking with our heads but living from our hearts.”
“You trust wholly or not at all. Trust was not divisible.”
“There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen â€” despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths...”
“There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold together.”

Source : "Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings Associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, Volume 2". Book edited by Robert D. Hume and Harold Love (p. 221), 2007.
“Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.45, Routledge
“I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass, but never or rarely surprised or upset when it does.”

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