My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.
I think the possibilities are endless in terms of what the genre would be like. However, in terms of looking for sources of money, I think we have to be very careful not to fall into Hollywood's commodification of Chicano culture. We could look at the example of Piri Thomas, a successful Puerto Rican writer now living in the Bay Area, who has received repeated offers from Hollywood. . . and he said he's not going to write about his people doing drugs and going to jail.
Reinforce what you want to see repeated. What gets rewarded gets done.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.
Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions—mine. "Mine," he repeated when she sighed heavily. "No one else's. " Silence. Only the warm wetness of her tears dampening his shirt. It broke his heart.
You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs.
Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
A good photograph is one that can't be repeated.
In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.
Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.