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Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)

Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump is a fictional character who first appears in the 1986 eponymous novel by Winston Groom. Forrest Gump also appeared on screen in the 1994 film of the same name directed by Robert Zemeckis. Gump was portrayed as a child by Michael Humphreys and portrayed as an adult by Tom Hanks, who won an Academy Award for the role. The portrayal of Forrest in the novel is notably different from the portrayal in the film. He later reappears in the 1995 novel Gump and Co. In 2008, Forrest Gump was named the 20th greatest movie character of all time by Empire magazine.

Quotes·Quotations by Forrest Gump

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump from Forrest Gump (1994)

¶ Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

¶ The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump_(character)

François Cavanna (1923- )

François Cavanna (1923- )

François Cavanna (born 2 February 1923 in Nogent-sur-Marne) is a French author and satirical newspaper editor. He contributed to the creation and success of Hara-Kiri (magazine) and Charlie Hebdo. He has written in a variety of genres including reportage, satire, essays, novels, autobiography and humor.

Although raised in France, he grew up surrounded by Italian immigrants due to his father's being from Italy. He treated this life in his book Les Ritals (1978). At the age of 16, he took up various part-time jobs. He delivered letters for the postal service, sold fruits and vegetables, and was a mason's apprentice. His journalistic debut came in 1945 when he began to work for the daily Libération.

In November 1969, Hara-Kiri was banned by the authorities for being pornographic. Cavanna came up with the expedient of renaming the magazine for the next weeks' issue, and thus, Charlie Hebdo was born.

Later, he turned to autobiographical writing. Les Ritals, mentioned above, dealt with his childhood, while Russkofs treated his experience in World War II and was the novel for which he won the Prix Interallié in 1979.

Quotes·Quotation by François Cavanna

Art

¶ When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francois_Cavanna

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban(s), KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.[1]

Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism. His works established and popularised inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today. His dedication probably led to his death, bringing him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.

Bacon was knighted in 1603, and created both the Baron Verulam in 1618, and the Viscount St Alban in 1621; as he died without heirs both peerages became extinct upon his death. He famously died of pneumonia contracted while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat.

Quotes·Quotations by Francis Bacon

Ability

@ Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. [Francis Bacon, Essays.]

Adversity

@ Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Adversity (1597).

Advice

¶ If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubt; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

¶ A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Arts·Artists

¶ "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

This quote suggests that the purpose of art is not to solve mysteries, but to deepen them, to make us think, feel, and question. It’s a beautiful encapsulation of the power and purpose of art.

Beauty

¶ There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon

Muhammad Ali (1942- )

Muhammad Ali (1942- )

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer, generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the sport's history. A controversial and polarizing figure during his early career, Ali is today widely regarded for the skills he displayed in the ring plus the values he exemplified outside of it: religious freedom, racial justice and the triumph of principle over expedience. He is one of the most recognized sports figures of the past 100 years, crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC.

African American

@ I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
Muhammad Ali, The Greatest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali

Bill Shankly (1913-1981)

Bill Shankly

William Shankly (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981) was a Scottish football (soccer) manager.

Quotes·Quotations by Bill Shankly

Football (Soccer)

@ A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
Quoted by John Toshack in Kevin McCarra, "How Benítez built Liverpool," The Guardian (2006-01-21)

@ At a football club, there's a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters.
"Bill Shankly: Life, death and football", The Guardian (2009-10-18)

@ Someone said to me 'To you football is a matter of life or death!' and I said 'Listen, it's more important than that'.
An interview on a Granada Television chat-show, hosted by Shelley Rohde on Wednesday 20th of May 1981,

¶ Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

***

@ I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
From his autobiography It's More Important Than That (1976), discussing the period after his retirement

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Shankly

M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992)

M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992)

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992) was a preeminent American food writer. She was also a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. She wrote some 27 books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Two volumes of her journals and correspondence came out shortly before her death in 1992. Her first book, Serve it Forth, was published in 1937. Her books are an amalgam of food literature, travel and memoir. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked: "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose."

Quotes·Quotations by M. F. K. Fisher

Food

¶ Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._F._K._Fisher

W. C. Fields (1880-1946)

W. C. Fields (1880-1946)

William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880[1] – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer.[2] Fields' comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women.

The characterization he portrayed in films and on radio was so strong it was generally identified with Fields himself. It was maintained by the publicity departments at Fields' studios (Paramount and Universal) and was further established by Robert Lewis Taylor's biography, W.C. Fields, His Follies and Fortunes (1949). Beginning in 1973, with the publication of Fields' letters, photos, and personal notes in grandson Ronald Fields' book W.C. Fields by Himself, it was shown that Fields was married (and subsequently estranged from his wife), and financially supported their son and loved his grandchildren.

However, Fields' friend Madge Evans, an actress, told a visitor in 1972 that Fields so deeply resented intrusions on his privacy by curious tourists walking up the driveway to his Los Angeles home that he would hide in the shrubs by his house and fire BB pellets at the trespassers' legs. Some years later, Groucho Marx told a similar story on his live performance album, An Evening with Groucho.

Quotes·Quotations by W. C. Fields

Attitudes

¶ I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

References

[1]^ "Conflicts over the true facts of W.C. Fields' life begin at the moment he was born. His original biographer, Taylor, even got this wrong, dating his birth at 9 April 1879, which would have made him an authentic bastard, as his parents were only married on 18 May of the same year. According to family lore, the Great Man was born on 29 January 1880". Louvish, Simon Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields. Faber & Faber, 1999. ISBN 0-393-04127-1 p. 28.
[2]^ Obituary Variety, January 1, 1947, page 46.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._C._Fields

Felicity Porter (Felicity)

Felicity Elizabeth Porter from Felicity

Played by Keri Russell. Felicity is the main character of the show. The series opens with Felicity's high school graduation. She intends to attend Stanford University and study pre-med. A sudden change of heart, after a conversation with her high school crush, leads her to abandon those plans and go to New York University instead. Once there she quickly realizes that she needs to find herself, away from her parents' sometimes overbearing influence and expectations. She begins her freshman year as an intelligent and thoughtful yet extremely impulsive person; however, as the show progresses, she grows into a more secure and centered young woman.

Quotes·Quotations by Felicity Porter

Decision

¶ Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can pretty much change your life forever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Felicity_characters

Faye Dunaway (1941- )

Faye Dunaway (1941- )

Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is an American actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1976 film Network. She was previously nominated for Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Chinatown (1974). She has starred in a variety of other successful films, including The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Three Days of the Condor (1975), and Mommie Dearest (1981).

Quotes·Quotations by Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford from Mommie Dearest (1981)

¶ No wire hangers! What's wire hangers doing in this closet when I told you no wire hangers, ever?! I work and I slave until I'm half dead, and all I hear people say is she's getting old. And what do I get? A daughter who cares as much about the beautiful dresses I give her as she cares about me! What's wire hangers doing in this closet?!

Faye Dunaway as Selena from Supergirl (1984)

¶ More or less, I think they were. You included.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye_Dunaway

Fanny Brice (Funny Girl )

Fanny Brice from Funny Girl (1968)

Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice from Funny Girl (1968)

¶ Hello, gorgeous.

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