"I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is."

-- Max Frisch

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“I think if I hadn't had the dance background, it would have been much harder as a kid to be like, 'I'm going to be an actress.' But you're involved with one area of the arts and other things interest you. It feels like an easier move.”
“I don't do anything to be lovable. I have no control.”
“I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.”

Source : "Director Richard LaGravenese Talks BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Adapting the Book, Deleted Scenes, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, and THE LAST FIVE YEARS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 16, 2013.
“Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.357, Scholastic Inc.
“People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.”
“In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.”

Source : "Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations". Book by Ned Sherrin, 2008.
“But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the experience of the reader or viewer. The reader or viewer remains passive in the face of the book or movie or play: she expects the work to be done for her. If the concept of identification suggested that an individual experiences a work as a mirror in which he might recognize himself, the notion of relatability implies that the work in question serves like a selfie: a flattering confirmation of an individual's solipsism.”
“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.”

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