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"I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films."
"Films have been my only passion in life. I have always been proud of making films and will continue taking pride in all my films. I have never made a movie I have not believed in. However, though I love all my films, one tends to get attached to films that do well. But I do not have any regrets about making films that did not really do well at the box office."
"Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room."
"He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her."
"Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand."
"The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here--and that is a blessing--do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole?"
"Joy & Satisfaction Show Up More Frequently & on Time when you have Passion"
"Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published."
"I always say: Don't die with your music still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. When you do this, you're also tapping into one of the face of intention: love. If you're doing what you love and loving what you do - whatever it is - you make a living at it!"
"A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought."
"How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?"
"Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great diligence, For that's a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense."
"But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were, That passion could bring character enough And pressed at midnighht in some public place Live lips upon a plummet-measured face."
". . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death"
"Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important."
"The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex a being for any one of them to have the casting vote. If any one of them do have the casting vote, it is more likely to be the strength of his desire and passion, the strength of the interest he takes in what is proposed. Concentration, memory, reasoning power, inventiveness, excellence of the senses, all are subsidiary to this."
"Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion."
"Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger"
"It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance"
"Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet."
