"I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it."

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Source : Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.

Anthony Minghella

#Notebook Quotes #Writing Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!”
“The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.”
“To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day.”

Source : "Life As It Is" by Nelson Rodrigues, translated by Alex Ladd, Host Publications, (p. ii), 2009.
“You must let life flow naturally, for lifeâ€™s secret is patience; you must stop pushing for change and allow things to unfold.”
“God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.”
“There's not a lot of music videos that are totally, totally disturbing.”
“For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.”

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