"I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Kristi Jacobson

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #America Quotes

“When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.”

Source : "Are we ever going to make this picture?". Interview with Alex Williams, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2003.
“Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.”
“There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy.”
“Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1954). “The Secret Stair”
“I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions and riffs and motifs and so on are very naturally suffusing the stories and the resulting book.”
“I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.25, Pan Macmillan
“Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.”
“I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.”

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