Quote of the Day

"Movie directing is the perfect refuge for the mediocre."

- Orson Welles

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. - John Wooden
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho

Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse

The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.
Alfred Adler

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead

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5-time MoFo Award winner.

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

Mr. Rodgers

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Under-the-radar Movie Awesomeness.
http://earlsmoviepicks.blogspot.com/

"Habit is either the best of the servants or the worst of masters" ~Nathaniel Emmons

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"the idea that a person who loves, or alternatively hate some piece of art should create a complete structure of claims and arguments to somehow legitimize his opinion - is no less then dangerous to our community."

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

- Mark Twain

"The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought."

- Thomas Mann

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965), television broadcast, December 31, 1955

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie A. Stanley

"I believe that God felt sorry for actors, so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent."

"Actors and burglars work better at night."

"I can't act. I have never acted. And I shall never act. What I can do is suspend my audience's power of judgment till I've finished."

- Sir Cedric Hardwicke

"I'd do it, but I am too lazy!" - Me

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying."

"I'm not afraid of dying... I just don't want to be there when it happens."

[In 1977] "This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?"

- Woody Allen

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland

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“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Don’t be afraid to change…You may lose something good, but you may gain something better. Photoshop your life; Touch up the edges, adjust the tones, blur out the background, focus on you, and crop people out. Thank the people that walked in to your life and made it better. And give thanks to the ones who walked out and made it amazing."

There are a lot of high-pitching quotes these days - in FB for ex. Do they help - this is the question.

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”― Oscar Wilde

Do a little more each day than you think you can. - Lowell Thomas

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

- Powderfinger (11/14/2013 - Australia)

"I'm trying to think but nothing happens!" -- Curly

'if at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it'
~Einstein

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

— Arthur C. Clarke