Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.
It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.
There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.
I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.
Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?
The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than interesting historical documents from centuries past. But read in aggregate, all that pain piles up. Essentially, Elder has amassed a collection of what people say when they know they are going to die, the final product of what could be seen as psychological torture.
The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful.
In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.