"Distance is where people get really confused. If you stand really far away from someone you're like, "That's not me. I'm so far away from that person. That person is so different from me." It's easy to forget that people - refugees from Syria, for example - are exactly like us."

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

#Confused Quotes #Distance Quotes #People Quotes

“I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.”
“You have to make a film and make it interesting, so you can't have a shot of you cleaning your teeth just because you did that. It's boring!”
“TDF is more essential today than it was when it was first founded in 1968.”
“My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.”

Source : "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.
“The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.”

Source : Simon Winchester (2004). “Korea: a walk through the land of miracles”, ePenguin
“Instead of making a resolution to learn how to code in 2013, you might make a resolution to learn how to draw.”
“At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams I confided to my father were of becoming a scholar in good earnest, and going to University. It was unheard-of several shocked governesses were only too quick to tell me, when I spoke a little too boldly -- but my father nodded and smiled and said, 'We'll see.' Since I believed my father could do anything -- except of course make me pretty -- I worked and studied with passionate dedication, lived in hope, and avoided society and mirrors.”

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