"Vera said: â€œWhy do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?â€ So I told her why. Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it."

-- Nora Ephron

#Hurt Quotes #Sorry Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.”
“[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.56, VM eBooks
“I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision”
“There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.”
“Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?”
“If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous element, we may reasonably conclude we have legendary (or midrashic or whatever) embellishment. The tale has grown in the telling. This sort of comparison is common in extrabiblical research and no one holds that it cannot properly indicate legend formation there.”
“The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.”

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