"It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining."

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Source : Ann Beattie (2010). “Walks With Men: Fiction”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

Ann Beattie

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Needs Quotes

“There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.”
“Making movies is like a circus. You get together for a finite amount of time and you build the most extravagant thing you can, which requires teamwork. Most people don't know, but when you see something on screen, it looks perfect. If you go behind the scenes, things are very archaic. You only see the front of the building, not the back.”

Source : "Director Joe Hahn Talks MALL, Why He Chose This Material as His First Feature, the Casting Process, His Music Video Background, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2014.
“DRS is like giving Picasso Photoshop.”
“Embrace the Savior's warm invitation to come unto Him, one by one, and be perfected in Him.”
“Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.”
“You score goals as a kid. Then you grow up stupid and become a goalkeeper.”
“Divine love, agape, is self-sacrificing love, which sounds difficult, as it is, and not very attractive. If the best image we have of love is of a man who's been tortured and hung upon a cross to die an excruciating death, this is something that human beings find very, very hard to understand as love. But it is the highest Christian image of love.”

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