Pluses Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Look, I'm going to take full advantage of this situation just because I love working with great filmmakers. But I've been around for a while, and I'm not going to play into the hype that I'm some great, you know, discovery. — Josh Brolin

Until Edison invented the electric light, most of the world was totally covered in darkness. The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two. — Haruki Murakami

Never ask your wife if she still hears from her old pimp. — Johnny Carson

He was, in his way, as close to a Zen master as I've ever had, and all of us who fell under his influence began with his style and eventually ended up with our own. — Nora Ephron

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands. — David Frum

If TV sitcoms idealized the American suburbs of the 1960s, the works of the artistic elite disparaged them ceaselessly, then and now. The songs of Pete Seeger, novels like Revolutionary Road, the stories of John Cheever, movies like Pleasantville and American Beauty, television series like Mad Men: in all of them, that long-ago land of lawns and houses is depicted as a country of stultifying conformity and cultural emptiness, sexual hypocrisy, alcoholism, and spiritual despair. Privilege murders the senses there, the creatives tell us. Gender roles strangle freedom. Family life turns the heart of adventure to ashes. There's bigotry and gossip and dangerous liaisons behind every closed door. Oh, the soul, the human soul! In the suburbs of fiction, she is forever dying. But — Andrew Klavan

Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once — Harlan Coben

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best. — Ross Turnbull

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing. — Omar Sharif

Dropping a nuclear weapon was never a good idea. — Eric Schlosser

But it was pure, this love that I was feeling. — Elizabeth Gilbert

His view of the sky spun first left then right, as though the world were trying on strange new angles for his approval. — Scott Lynch

My talent is working very hard and having a decent nose. A good nose for a story and the ability to get a little bit dirty sometimes, to get a little bit physical sometimes chasing a story. And to feel it, I mean I feel it. — Steve Bunce

I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be. — Joel Edgerton

I understand friendship and I can understand why Barak Obama did it, but I think Brexit is something that he shouldn't have done. — Donald Trump