"All my life I've wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die."

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Source : "The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street".

Helene Hanff

#Home Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.”
“I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'”
“We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.”
“A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis.”
“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.”
“There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.”
“To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 26, 2015
“It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.”

Source : "‘Addicted to Fresno’ Director Jamie Babbit on Hiding Pregnancies and Embracing Diversity". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 1, 2015.

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