Terrence Malick (Terrence Frederick Malick) Quotes

When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

Terrence Malick

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• Important
• Struggle
• Cliche
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• You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

  

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• It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.

  

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  • Up
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  • Good

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• When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

  

  Terrence Malick
  • People
  • Important
  • Struggle