"But we canâ€™t control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it."

-- Alison Levine

#Way Quotes #Environment Quotes

“I discovered that running actually gave me both physical and mental clarity. I love it.”
“I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.”
“Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.”
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
“I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy.”
“When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.”
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

Source : "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye". "Sight & Sound" Magazine, June 1991.
“...miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to...”

Source : Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.24, Ballantine Books

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