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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. ↗

— John le Carre

#casting #coming #creative #dressing #energy

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#certain #help #lives #moments #need

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#either #life #opens #opportunities #stay

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#crazy #devil #drive #even #faces

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#bit #deserve #drag #happy #i

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#anybody #been #down #feel #hard

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#being #danger #hindrance #kind #like

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#arguing #bank #bank robbery #cab #four

I don't take reviews very seriously, but in their totality I think they are representative of how the audience feels, and of what their reaction is. There's always one guy who doesn't get it. ↗

— David Zucker

#audience #feels #get #guy #how

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#believe #breaking #comes #dissolution #down