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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#decide #difficult #more #nothing #precious

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#coming #continue #daily #deadlines #done

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#completely #doing #ever #generally #i

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#dharma #know #neither #nor #nothing

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#delusion #means #mortality

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#great #height #made #music #political

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#confidence #directing #else #entirely #i

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#dealing #deals #family #film #i

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#asks #because #career #dream #films

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#made #possession #riches #them #treasures