Rooted Quotes - Page 30

• Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

  Joe Hill

  Desire, Horror, Ass

  "Horns author Joe Hill". Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2010.

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• I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Black, Lagoons, Creatures

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Don't listen to other people's advice unless it is rooted in irrepressible enthusiasm (e.g., "Be afraid but do it anyway"), or about the importance of being a good colleague.

  Torill Kove

  People, Advice, Enthusiasm

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are rooted in a strong and anchored in a powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies, which diverts us here and there.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Forgiveness, Strong, Powerful

  "Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection".

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• Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Dream, Past, Dust

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