"Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer."

-- Denis Leary

#Baseball Quotes #Independent Quotes #Hollywood Quotes

“Whoâ€™s that? Thatâ€™s the King. Whoâ€™s he? The Duke. Whoâ€™s she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Ummâ€¦how about the Peasant? And the name stuck.”
“We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.”

Source : Karen Traviss (2011). “Hard Contact: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.165, Del Rey
“I'd stopped doing music all of a sudden, and because of Chill and Jay and B, I got half of my album on a solo project. Then I get a call a week later and Jay is like, "Yo, Janet [Jackson] likes one of the records. We'll take five but are you cool with giving Janet one?" I was like, dude, we can do whatever you want to do.”
“We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end.”

Source : Nova Ren Suma (2015). “The Walls Around Us”, p.11, Algonquin Books
“Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things donâ€™t turn out as we had hoped. But thatâ€™s when we we must a decision that weâ€™re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.”

Source : "Tim Cook, Apple CEO, Auburn University Commencement Speech 2010" by Kit Eaton, www.fastcompany.com. August 26, 2011.
“In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.”

Source : "All Calories are Not the Same!" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2009.
“I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152
“A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2011.

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