Tom Armstrong quotes

Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?
-- Tom Armstrong

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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.