"Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time."

-- Robert McKee

#Stories Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Metaphor Quotes

“Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best!”
“When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.”
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
“The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.”
“I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.”
“The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.”
“Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.”

Source : "Torture Garden".
“There's a tendency for people in New York to think the world exists between the East and the Hudson Rivers, and I don't share that opinion. To me the world is a big place and I try to reach people everywhere. Listen, if I'm nothing else, I feel I've been a man of the people. I'm not going to pretend to be one of those snobby New York theater people.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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