"Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great."

-- James Laughlin

#Gertrude Quotes #Bells Quotes #Now And Then Quotes

“Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow, That gave this gentle name.”

Source : Mary Botham Howitt (1847). “The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.57
“even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things ...”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Do you wake up in the morning and first thing, centre yourself by looking at your palms together? Thereby have a nice day.”
“When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.”
“It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.”
“I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years”
“[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!”
“If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.”

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