"There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt."

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Source : Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

Thomas Harris

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“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”
“Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?”

Source : "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 92), 1975.
“Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. Artists, of all people, must be willing to share their passions with the world.”
“My advice to any filmmaker would be to figure out what it is that you bring to the table. What makes you different? What is your voice?”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still wonder once in a while and ask: how is it that I, poor earth-habitituated animal, can fly?”
“The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present.”

Source : Herbert Butterfield (1931). “The Whig interpretation of history”
“Quite a crowd tonight, Gin. Usually, it's just you and Finn." I shrugged. "What can I say? I seem to attract minions wherever I go these days. Kind of like the Pied Piper." Behind me, Finn huffed out his displeasure. "Minion? I am most certainly not a mere minion. Head minion, perhaps. At the very least.”
“It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.”

Source : Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.77, Rodale

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