"You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us."

-- Jerome Lawrence

#Peers Quotes #Television Quotes #Demand Quotes

“I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.”
“Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.”

Source : Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)
“Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.”
“..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a long time. Writers only like to sniff their own turds. I am one of those. I don't even like to talk to writers, look at them or worse, listen to them. And the worst is to drink with them, they slobber all over themselves, really look piteous, look like they are searching for the wing of the mother. I'd rather think about death than about other writers. Far more pleasant.”
“We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.”
“I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'”
“When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other”
“The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.”

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