"Believing in fate has probably always arisen in part because of the delights and terrors of storytelling. We have to realize--to learn--that in life we are not the readers but the authors of our own narratives."

-- Margaret Visser

#Believe Quotes #Fate Quotes #Delight Quotes

“He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.”

Source : Jamie Ford (2014). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost: Two Bestselling Novels: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost”, p.191, Ballantine Books
“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.”
“Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.”
“The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.”

Source : "The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.
“I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.”
“I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.”
“I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.”
“The industry has changed in big ways. When I started making movies, the studios were not all owned by huge conglomerates, so the decisions were made in a very different way. Over the years, I've watched both the rise and the decimation and fall of the DVD as a portion of where you could generate revenue from making this kind of content. We've seen this change in the balance sheet on the international side of the ledger; it's now a much bigger percentage than it is on domestic, even though movies would have been previously really domestically driven.”

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