"At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction."

-- David Nicholls

#Silly Quotes #Writing Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute”
“What I am looking for is a certain grace.”
“I'm not hoping to see that day but I know that my cinema will reach Filipinos. I know that they will embrace it one day. It will happen. I'm very sure of that. I still have faith in cinema. I still believe it can affect change.”

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“I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.”
“Tobacco control is clearly a number one priority in Europe, not only aimed at men, particularly the male populations of Central and Eastern Europe, but increasingly targeted towards women, especially in Northern Europe.”
“The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense.”
“My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.”
“I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general.”

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