Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“Nina was always loved. Maybe that’s a bad thing. It gives people that terrible confidence that the world is going to give them the chance to fulfill themselves.”
Travis McGee series, (1964)
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Michael Balcon
(1896–1977) English Film producer
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed): Art. Michael Balcon p. 28
Source: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 9 (p. 138)
“It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.”
Walt Disney
(1901–1966) American film producer and businessman
The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
Louis Armstrong
(1901–1971) American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
Spoken intro to "What a Wonderful World" (1970 version)
Context: Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser. That's wha' ol' Pops keeps saying.
Context: Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser. That's wha' ol' Pops keeps saying.
Joanne K. Rowling
(1965) British novelist, author of the Harry Potter series
Online tweet, in response to an extremely depressed person contemplating https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/595148783056527360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etonline.com%2Fnews%2F163965_jk_rowling_sends_beautiful_message_to_fan_who_wants_to_finally_give_up%2F suicide, as quoted in "J.K. Rowling Sends Beautiful Message to Fan Who Wants to 'Finally Give Up'" by Alex Ungerman ET Online (5 May 2015) http://www.etonline.com/news/163965_jk_rowling_sends_beautiful_message_to_fan_who_wants_to_finally_give_up/
2010s
Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985), p. 3
