"It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography â€” but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.”
“For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; and the swords might be turned into ploughshares, the spears into pruning-hooks, and as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more.”
“If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.”

Source : "An Open Letter To Miles Davis". Charles Mingus, Downbeat Magazine, November 30, 1955.
“Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.”
“I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.”
“Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.”
“I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres, with stellar origins like Twentieth Century and Trouble in Paradise. I think as audiences lost their innocence, the genre lost its suspense. To create suspense, you need obstacles, so I gave my couple an obstacle that very few people ever overcome: their own behavior and their past.”

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