Allan Loeb quotes

“I like to walk a lot and various ideas come in my mind. Many of them I discard.”
-- Allan Loeb

Source : "'Collateral Beauty' Film Writer: Will Smith Was Best Actor for Dramatic Leading Role". Interview with Jeannie Law, www.christianpost.com. December 23, 2016.

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“I wrote [Collateral Beauty] on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an idea I had that I really, really felt needed to be in script form before showing it to anyone in the industry because of the uniqueness of the idea, and the weirdness of the idea, to be frank.”
-- Allan Loeb

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com

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“I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.”
-- Allan Loeb

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com

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“I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."”
-- Allan Loeb

Source : "'Collateral Beauty' Film Writer: Will Smith Was Best Actor for Dramatic Leading Role". Interview with Jeannie Law, www.christianpost.com. December 23, 2016.

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“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

“The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.”

“There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.”

“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

“The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.”

“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”

“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”

“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”

“A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.”

Source : "Streets 2K5 international festival Of Street Art". p. 19, May 2005.