"There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due."

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Source : Charlie Kaufman (2008). “Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

Charlie Kaufman

#People Quotes #Stories Quotes #World Quotes

“...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand...”
“Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.”

Source : Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press
“The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your peers. Most people want to fit in with their tribe in some way or another, so they give off signals, whether it's with their clothes, their behavior, their car, their whatever, and gain status. Every tribe has a hierarchy, and that's what taste is: it's an unconscious display of who you are, and where you want to be.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“This is so much harder than I ever thought it would be...because the thing is, even if you're just working part-time, your boss is going to expect a full week's worth of work, no matter how understanding she is. That's just the nature of the working world-things have to get done, babies or not. And if you're like me-if you're like any woman who ever did well in school and did well at her job-you don't want to disappoint a boss. And you want to do a good job raising your baby...It's not like you think it's going to be”
“Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.”
“I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!”
“To take offense is to give offense.”
“My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.”

Source : "Hunter Hayes just needed to'reset' to write encore tunes" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 17, 2013.

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