"A house without books is like a room without windows."

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Source : "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

Horace Mann

#Life Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Attitude Quotes

“When I was 5, someone thought it was smart to let me watch The People Under the Stairs. It might not have even been that scary, but I do remember skinned people in cages under the stairs and a man who lived in a wall without a tongueâ€¦ and thatâ€™s why I cry after sex.”
“To create a work of art is to create the world.”
“How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.”
“Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large families - the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week, - these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.”

Source : Speech at his Durham election in July 1843. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, p. 100, 1913.
“Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.”
“I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.”
“I'm just trying to enjoy my moment, and I would like to enjoy it for a long time.”
“I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.”

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