"Donâ€™t sit down in the middle of the woods. If youâ€™re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.”

Source : "Strictly Ballroom". www.imdb.com. 1992.
“One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.”
“I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.”
“Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.”
“As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses and ancient subjects he chose represented virtues which were meant to inspire people. Then he went through a dark phase when he was listening to the sermons of Savonarola, who preached against the worldly pleasures of the Renaissance. But Botticelli's works live on, inspiring people to this day. Five hundred years after his death, he still has thousands of fans!”

Source : Source: www.yabookshelf.com
“Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books were odd, all of them ‘unfinished’ the way Chopin’s Études are unfinished: no wasted gestures, no unnecessary notes.”
“Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.”
“Metro shows no signs of being able to make its trains run on time. This occurs during single-tracking and it occurs during normal rush hour service.”

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