"Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything."

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Source : Lorna Landvik (2003). “Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons”

Lorna Landvik

#Attitude Quotes #Posture Quotes #Get Away Quotes

“By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.”
“You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects, and that your emotional storyline is what's driving the train.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.”
“I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.”
“[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.”
“There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami.”

Source : "Scarborough Country", www.nbcnews.com. January 3, 2005.
“Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.”

Source : Martin Amis (2010). “The Information”, p.9, Random House
“What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.”

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