"No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness."

-- Mariska Hargitay

“I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.”
“Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity... We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.”

Source : "The Lost World". Book by Michael Crichton, 1995.
“We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.”

Source : Alan MacFarlane, Gerry Martin (2011). “The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World”, p.4, Profile Books
“There is truth in wine and children”
“We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity”
“We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.”
“There are lots of parts of filmmaking that I don't like. At the end of the day, especially on features, the film turns into a commodity. You have to play this entirely new game I'm very uncomfortable with.”
“Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.”

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