"On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable."

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Carter Burwell

#Wish Quotes #Cinema Quotes #Facts Quotes

“A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.”
“Everyone was saying, "Oh, Chumbawamba, they're crap, can't get arrested." But we had absolute faith in what we were doing, so we put our heads down and made the best album we possibly could. Then we got a deal based on the final product.”
“I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.”
“Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.”
“Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.”
“My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.”

Source : "Constable". Book by Conal Shields, p. 288. Letter to Rev. John Fisher (1824), 1993.
“It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.”
“Don't hate the black, don't hate the white. If you get bit, just hate the bite.”

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