Tim Bevan Quotes

I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.

Nothing like war reveals man in the same strength—their courage, their stupidity, their fears, their hopes, their ugliness ….

We were not defeated. We had been refugees. Now we were freedom fighters.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise

Thankfully, gratefully, cancer did not get the best of me.

Every writer follows a theme, and mine is survival. If you can't figure out what a writer's theme is, look at the books you are attracted to.

I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything.

More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.

I'm a survivor. I'm a messenger.

You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

Most travel disasters turn into something else: a story of survival, a story of bravery, of heroism, sometimes villainy. You just don't know when it starts where it's going to go because they are unexpected events.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.

Survival is very powerful. All your faculties want to cling to life. We're not tested usually, luckily, but when we are, we become superheroes.

To those out there who are suffering from cancer, facing adversity, I want you to know that your will to live can make all the difference in the world.

The first time I won a medal at a female wrestling tournament, all of the other girls there had coaches and family members cheering them on. I went in alone, said nothing, wrestled three girls and beat three girls - convincingly.

Once you've been through tough times, you can only become stronger.

I'm a survivor.

There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.

When you're the good guy in a horror film, you're usually suffering a lot throughout the entire thing.

When things get you in the corner, and it feels like you can't go on, you can fight back. You're never out of the fight.