I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Hannah Arendt

Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

Lea Thompson

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

J.K. Rowling

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Hannah Arendt

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

Salman Rushdie

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Rabindranath Tagore

I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.

Nolan Ryan

It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.

Proverb

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Cardinal J. Newman

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

Diana Ossana

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

Hannah More

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

Grazia Deledda