#iv

We deliberately forget because forgetting is a blessing. On both an emotional level and a spiritual level, forgetting is a natural part of the human experience and a natural function of the human brain. It is a feature, not a bug, one that saves us from being owned by our memories. Can a world that never forgets be a world that truly forgives? ↗

— Tim Challies

#forgiveness #experience

I don't know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It's just brutal. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#angelina jolie #being #brutal #how #i

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in. ↗

— Dwight Gooden

#get #give #like #loaded #never

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#covering #descended #equal #number #party

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character. ↗

— David Duchovny

#i #identify #instinctively #know

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#also #although #belonged #collectively #convey

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process. ↗

— Howard Gordon

#been #before #circuit #come #doing

When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#delaware #delaware state #delaware state university #founded #reality

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#already #another #around #collective #communal

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#excuse #generally #gives #got #gratuitous