"Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle."

-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Military Quotes #Dark Quotes #Men Quotes

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
“You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.”
“The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.”
“I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.”
“Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.”
“To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.”
“I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born”
“Men are intimidated by smart women. They make us want to kick up our game more.”

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