MOVIE

Adaptation.

2002

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

115 min

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FindCenter Quotes Image Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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FindCenter Quotes Image It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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FindCenter Quotes Image Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

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FindCenter Quotes Image Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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FindCenter Quotes Image 'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

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FindCenter Quotes Image When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

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FindCenter Quotes Image You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.

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FindCenter Quotes Image Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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FindCenter Quotes Image Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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FindCenter Quotes Image Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

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