"What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it."

-- Thomas More

#Carpe Diem Quotes #Play Quotes #Make The Best Of It Quotes

“I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.”
“Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart.Â Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.”
“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”

Source : "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese, www.sfgate.com. 2009.
“The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards.”
“As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.”
“I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.”

Source : "Corporate Reform Updates and a Conversation with the FCC Commissioner". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 2, 2003.
“Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.”
“When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.”

You may also like:

Anne Boleyn
Marquess of Pembroke
Desiderius Erasmus
Theologian
Henry VIII of England
King of England
Martin Luther
Monk
Niccolo Machiavelli
Historian
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Wolsey
Political figure
Tommaso Campanella
Philosopher
William Shakespeare
Poet