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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#before #even #good #had #less

Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

#friends #i #later #love #often

About these developments George Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, was quite wrong. He described a new kind of state and police tyranny, under which the freedom of speech has become a deadly danger, science and its applications have regressed, horses are again plowing untilled fields, food and even sex have become scarce and forbidden commodities: a new kind of totalitarian puritanism, in short. But the very opposite has been happening. The fields are plowed not by horses but by monstrous machines, and made artificially fertile through sometimes poisonous chemicals; supermarkets are awash with luxuries, oranges, chocolates; travel is hardly restricted while mass tourism desecrates and destroys more and more of the world; free speech is not at all endangered but means less and less. ↗

— John A. Lukacs

#george-orwell #orwell #prophecy #puritanism #food

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#another #audience #been #blues #cumulative

Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

#around #colder #concert #gave #i

When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

#hope #people #sing #then #want

You can be great only if it is your destiny. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

#great #only #you #your

Today’s breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the children have ever known. I suppose it is best not to have anything to compare. ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#historical-fiction #historical-romance #food

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. ↗

— Epictetus

#lies #philosophy #sustain #two #words

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#communication #film #good #requires #screenwriter