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There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers
I would accompany my dad to his film's sets. I especially remember going with him on the sets of 'Vijaypath.'
A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.
Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.
There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.
No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.
I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.
…he murmured. “Of course, you’re my favorite ride.” “Aw, that’s sweet, baby. And you’re my favorite joystick.
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
Get through today – you can fall apart tomorrow. Get through tomorrow, you can fall apart the day after . . .
This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.
Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.
The European Union has lost virtually all of its credibility amongst large swaths of the European population.
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.
Nothing about Tony Soprano's life was glamorous. He was never somebody I wanted to be. His life was terrible.
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.
When walking you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.
Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping.
Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality.