Amping Up Quotes

#1. Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature
screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon
the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.

John Roecker

#2. Leaving senior year like:
its hard to leave to you leave, then its the eased goddam thing you've ever done.

John Green

#3. The tombstones smashed in Hebrew cemeteries and plundered for Polish sidewalks; today bored citizens, staring at their feet while waiting for a bus, can still read the inscriptions.

Anne Michaels

#4. My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.

Paul Shaffer

#5. I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.

David Byrne

#6. We kept a jarful of keys
on a forgotten shelf
in the house.
What doors they opened,
or what they kept forever locked,
before they came by accident
or chance into our little jar,
we never learned.

Merlie M. Alunan

#7. Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

Romain Rolland

#8. The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

Twyla Tharp

#9. People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.

Grant Achatz

#10. The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Madame De Stael

#11. It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.

Jiddu Krishnamurti