"In the Afghan people, I found the most resilient, welcoming people who, for the first time in my career, never judged me over my right to tell this story - as a woman or a foreigner. A people who cherish their culture and history and the films that have captured that culture."

-- Pietra Brettkelly

#Careers Quotes #People Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without relish, the contentment of doing God's will. Thus after the winter the spring will come, with its flowers, and you will hear the voice of the turtle-dove in this land.”
“No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.”
“If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.”
“In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.”
“Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.”
“Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.”

Source : Interview with Jim Rome, thespitter.com. March 8, 2016.
“Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.”
“The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.”

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