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I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff. ↗

— Franka Potente

#cool #depp #fault #guy #him

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#anticipating #bible #book #called #consider

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#comes #ending #how #know #like

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#common #communism #concord #danger #excellence

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#greatness #life #life

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#danny #element #encounters #freudian #heart

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say. ↗

— Tyrone Power

#films #i #knights #like #parts

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. ↗

— Beatrix Potter

#almost #behave #believe #causes #endless

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#life

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'. ↗

— Beatrix Potter

#effect #lettuce #much #said #too