To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing. '
The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
Christian stretched out beside her and pulled her close. ʺBut for what itʹs worth, I think youʹd be a great queen too, Princess Dragomir. ʺ ʺYouʹre going to get dirty,ʺ she warned. ʺAlready am. Oh, you mean from your clothes?ʺ He wrapped his arms around her, heedless of her damp and muddy state. ʺI spent most of my childhood hiding in a dusty attic and own exactly one dress shirt. You really think I care about this T-shirt?ʺ
There is a reason why the other person thinks and acts as they do. Ferret out that reason - and you have the key to their actions, perhaps to their personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.
It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later. . . Let’s not go there.