"Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting."

-- Jerome K. Jerome

#Poor Quotes #Trifles Quotes

“I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.”
“It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.”
“I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did Reno 911! for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the Star Trek thing.”

Source : "Comedy Bang Bang's Scott Aukerman talks about turning his podcast into a strange, funny TV show". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2012.
“One thing America truly does stand for is a million different ways of living. But while we enjoy the lives we have, we're so privileged. We live in a world that's so far from what the Palestinian children are going through, it's unbelievable. Yet if we dare to get close to that atrocity and name it, it would shock us so badly we couldn't live in our privileged comfort zone.”

Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.
“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”
“When I first started out, it was very, very difficult to even get in the room with directors or casting directors because they would see that I hadn't been to drama school and wouldn't want to see me. Now, I feel like it's changing. We have this new generation of a lot of writers, directors and actors who are just breaking through, and they're doing it for the passion.”

Source : "Kaya Scodelario Talks THE TRUTH ABOUT EMANUEL, Working with Jessica Biel, Filming Underwater, THE MAZE RUNNER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 7, 2014.
“Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.”
“Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.”

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