"It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax."

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Source : Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”

Patricia Moyes

#Interesting Quotes #Events Quotes #Retrospect Quotes

“I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.”
“Unless you connect to the text, the audience won't be able to connect with you.”

Source : "A working life: The voice coach". Interview with Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.
“The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.”
“I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y.”
“We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it ("it" in this case being a variety of things: murder, robbery, general mayhem, adultery, screwing over the government, basic intimidation and thuggery, etc.). It's a very American ideal - the freedom to break the law.”
“There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.”
“He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.”
“People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.”

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