"If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Life Quotes #Men Quotes #Names Quotes

“Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.”

Source : Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.50
“Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.”
“Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jul 27, 2011
“With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.”
“I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.”
“If you think too long, you think wrong.”
“In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.”

Source : "Jess Weixler Is Comedy's Next Big Thing". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. March 28, 2013.
“I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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