"Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation."

-- William Blackstone

#Mean Quotes #Men Quotes #Law Quotes

“It all went a bit grape-shaped.”
“I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want to call it pop, but it's some interesting artist that gets my attention, I listen to in the mornings.”
“You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.”
“In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator.”
“Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.”
“Nicholas Sarkozy made the point that both America and France have political systems that they want to share with the world. There's an emphasis on being a unique person. Screw you if you don't like it. But the problem is, they're all the same.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim by reading a book about swimming and nobody learns how to write by reading a book about writing. If you want to learn how to write, write a lot and you will get better at it.”
“There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.”

Source : "Director Dan Scanlon Talks MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, Landing His Directorial Debut, Who He Went to for Advice and the Film’s Technological Advancements". Press Day Interview, collider.com. June 18, 2013.

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