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It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that i hope to inspire with this book.
-Mary Roach
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Mary Roach
It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that i hope to inspire with this book.
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And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. for an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. it is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.
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Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. in creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. all creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. all creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.
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Usually, when making a film, the surprises are negative surprises. you don't get what you wanted or what you hoped for. the only nice surprises are those that are offered to you by actors when they offer you these gifts, when they are better and give you more than what you had originally conceived. that doesn't happen every day on set, but if it happens a couple of times in the course of making a film, you can consider yourself very lucky.
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