"If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Frank Darabont

#Stupid Quotes #Fall Quotes #Feet Quotes

“I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.”

Source : "Screenwriter Danny Strong Talks HBO’s GAME CHANGE, Adapting Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL, and Lee Daniels’ THE BUTLER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. Macrh 6, 2012.
“When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”
“I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.”
“Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty and competitive, and when you die she is the person you want beside you holding your hand. Somebody's gotta organize the potluck after the service and you know your husband's not gonna be up to the job.”

Source : Cathy Lamb (2009). “Henry's Sisters”, p.96, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“â€Ž"The best of men are just men at best.”
“Guns don't walk into a theater by themselves and shoot people. You have to look at who's behind it, who's behind the trigger?”
“Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.”

Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.48, Courier Corporation
“One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work. Whereas in the past children not only saw what their parents did for a living but even shared substantially in the task, many children nowadays have only a vague notion of the nature of the parent's job, and have had little or no opportunity to observe the parent, or for that matter any other adult, when he is fully engaged in his work.”

Source : Urie Bronfenbrenner (1973). “Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.”, Pocket

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