There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
AL PACINOI’m a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPER -
There’s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love.
STEPHENIE MEYER -
The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.
EARL NIGHTINGALE -
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
ALAN BERSIN -
To be naked is to be oneself.
JOHN BERGER -
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
LEONARD COHEN -
And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.
BRENDA UELAND -
I never really understood all the hype, until I got one of my own.
ZACH BRAFF -
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I’ve been writing, not a lot, but I’m inspired everyday.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE -
Deep down you always knew.
DAVID JONES -
I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.
HAMMURABI -
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
In L.A., it’s very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather’s too hot; there’s no seasons.
JASON STATHAM -
Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
BILLY JOEL -
If something’s working, you lean into it. You don’t fight it.
BILLY LAWRENCE -
The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD -
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
COLIN POWELL -
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
LORD ACTON -
I’ve never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I’m here because it happened. But I didn’t do anything to make it happen apart from saying ‘Yes’
RINGO STARR -
Food is not your best friend or enemy.
BETHENNY FRANKEL -
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
CESARE PAVESE -
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
BENOIT MANDELBROT