"It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films."

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"It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films."

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"If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be."

Stephen King, American Author

Comfort, Truth, Wisdom, Emotion, Connection

"He wanted to stay there forever, letting her soothe him, pretending he was just a kid and his mom could make everything okay."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Comfort, Childhood, Security, Nostalgia

"In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

Comfort, Family, Life, Hope, Quiet

"A nice warm shower, a cup of tea, and a caring ear may be all you need to warm your heart."

Charles F. Glassman, American Author

Comfort, Kindness, Love, Care

"Give mea pillow of strongever-dependable shouldersthat i can bury my head in."

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Comfort, Support, Love, Friendship

"The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Comfort, Pleasure, Liberty, Fire

"I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Comfort, Safety, Night, Peace

"Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Comfort, Rest, Peace, Desire

"Winston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading, in comfort and safety. He was alone: no telescreen, no ear at the keyhole, no nervous impulse to glance over his shoulder or cover the page with his hand. The sweet summer air played against his cheek. From somewhere far away there floated the faint shouts of children: in the room itself there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock. He settled deeper into the arm-chair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss, it was eternity."

George Orwell, British Author

Comfort, Peace, Reading, Solitude

"Blessed be His name that He has arranged that one Person of the Sacred Trinity should undertake this office of Comforter, for no man could ever perform its duties. We might as well hope to be the Savior as to be the Comforter of the heartbroken!"

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Comfort, Faith, Hope, Divine, Support

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"My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad."

Family

"There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly."

People

"I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done."

People

"I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors."

Thought

"I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash."

Comfort

"I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself."

Career

"The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones."

Business

"It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want."

Money

"At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home."

Home

"It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films."

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