"The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff."

-- Anita Diament

#Real Quotes #Hollywood Quotes #Puff Quotes

“The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.”

Source : Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Jean O'Grady, David Staines (2003). “Northrop Frye on Canada”, p.468, University of Toronto Press
“Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.”
“Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.”
“Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly, but deal with content; be a formalist exploration; and operate on some, metaphor is not the right word but, resonant level..”
“Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.”
“The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.”

Source : Richard Carlson, Kristine Carlson (2007). “An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given”, Hyperion
“Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.”
“It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!”

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