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“I want you to consider this distinction as you go forward in life. Being male is not enough; being a man is a right to be earned and an honor to be cherished. I cannot tell you how to earn that right or deserve that honor. . . but I can tell you that the formation of your manhood must be a conscious act governed by the highest vision of the man you want to be.”
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“My compulsion is to create things.”
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“We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.”
Source : Marjorie Garber (2011). “The Use and Abuse of Literature”, p.30, Vintage
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“Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.”
Source : Interview with Matt Mitrovich, amazingstoriesmag.com. March 24, 2015.
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“For me, it is important to not just tell the audience how the story ended today, but to give a glimpse into how other people's stories might go on, in the future.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.”
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“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”