"To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful."

-- Eugene Ionesco

#World Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes #Painful Quotes

“I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.”
“I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.”
“First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another exploration of the plight of the individual whose aspirations are at odds with those of the surrounding community: his last opera returning to the themes of Peter Grimes. As I read and listened and thought, however, Billy Budd came to seem a more appropriate foil for Death in Venice.”
“How can I go out there and create value?”

Source : Stedman Graham, Ken Blanchard, Jon Huntsman, Doug Lennick, Fred Kiel Ph.D. (2012). “Leading Teams with Integrity: Advice from Leadership Experts (Collection)”, p.45, FT Press
“The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.”
“There are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers.”
“How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up having to tell two distinct stories, which is never the ultimate way to create a great serialized drama. So then, of course, we had the tragedy with Andy [Whitfield], which made everything very difficult and pushed back.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Believe in yourself.reach down inside.the love you found will set you free.Believe in youself.You would come alive.Have faith in what you do.You'll make it through”

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