"To call them emotional comedies sounds cloying. Like Billy Wilder said, 'You want to make them laugh and you want to make them cry,' and it's very hard to do so. If you ground it in reality, you get a more honest comedy. You don't have to reach for jokes to manufacture situations as much. And I think it's a type of film I do best."

-- Charles Shyer

#Reality Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.”
“She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.60, U of Nebraska Press
“The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.”
“The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.”
“Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.”

Source : Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.12
“There's tons of external and internal pressures that we deal with but live for God and you'll be alright.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“It's not the end of the world to lose.”
“Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities.”

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