#mma

Words are not the only way we communicate, you and I. They never were. ↗

— Meredith Duran

#julian #meredith-duran #communication

In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't learn how to make a movie in film school. What you learned in film school was to express yourself with pictures and sound. But learning to make a movie is totally different. ↗

— Peter Biskind

#filmmaking #movies

It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all. ↗

— Rebecca Donovan

#chance #courage #determination #emma #important

Dr. Stuart wouldn't give me a date. Apparently, there's some concern that I've become a liability for the university unless I shift my field of expertise to something more local." "Local?" "I believe he mentioned the word 'classroom'" She didn't bother to hide her disgust. "Bloody hell! The man is mad to think about putting you in the classroom. ↗

— Monica Burns

#ewan #dating

He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival. ↗

— Gemma Malley

#butterflies #butterfly #death #flower #flowers

Glen used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#grammar #immortality #death

I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter. ↗

— Gemma Malley

#death #declaration #gemma #kiss #life

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas. ↗

— Carolyn Kizer

#commas #death #kizer #poetry #poets

Pray FOR positive outcomes, never ON perceived dilemmas ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#delimma #positive #pray #prayer #praying

Without the personal traumas, tribulations and ‘terribles’ that I have experienced throughout life, I wouldn’t have gained the information necessary to write this book and my life would never have taken the course it has. ↗

— Emma James

#rebel-diet #diet