"People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases."

-- AndreÃ¯ Makine

#Rain Quotes #Talking Quotes #Weather Quotes

“We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.”
“I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.”
“Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.”
“The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings.”
“It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.”

Source : "Reel Steel: Alice Englert" by Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. January 7, 2013.
“Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.”
“These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.”
“I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.”

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