"There is something about seeing myself improve that motivates and excites me."

-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.”
“I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.”
“[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.”
“No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.”

Source : CLOVIS G. CHAPPELL (1970). “SORMONS ON BIBLICAL CHARACTERS”
“Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.”
“Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?”

Source : "Are you playing it Safe? What does safety really mean to you?" by Ayelet Baron, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2017.
“India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.”
“My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche.... It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think.”

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