"Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies."

-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#Movie Quotes #Self Quotes #Life Experience Quotes

“A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.”
“Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.”
“At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.”

Source : "My favourite table". Interview with Toby Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2008.
“They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.”
“Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.”
“I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?”

Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". "Sans Soleil", www.imdb.com. 1983.
“My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one of these kids. He's wrapped up in a red bullfighter's cape. And you've got to decide what we're gonna do with Superman.”
“Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it to grasp the Thisness (Haecceitas) of what is before them. Thinking is like a Stradivarius that has more potential variations in how it is played than any human can finitely perform or capture.”

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