Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
After a storm comes a calm.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.