"The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic."

-- Gus Van Sant

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“That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. â€œWhich is all very well,â€ she said bitterly, â€œbut the only essay subject you can find enough Early Anglo-Saxon words for is â€˜How to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hallâ€™.”
“For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.”
“Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.”
“Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.”
“And guys, if you exploit a girl, it will come back to get you. That's called 'karma.'”
“I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.”
“Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.”

Source : Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.14, Vintage

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