"When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background."

-- Blixa Bargeld

#Musical Quotes #Artistic Quotes #Backgrounds Quotes

“It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous about how to do it respectfully, and I was also thinking about how I could add something new to something that had already been so explored.”
“I've played golf with three U.S presidents.”
“They kept asking me over and over again whether I was having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend? I laughed and answered the same way each time: No, those are false rumours. I only made documentaries for him...”

Source : Leni Riefenstahl (1992). “The sieve of time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl”
“It is difficulties that show what men are.”
“It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.”
“We have a dire need to get onto the page as a sustainable country”
“While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump. I merely think I do. And, if some dangerous treatment would save your life, but you don't know that fact, it would be irrational for you to take this treatment, but that is what you have most reason to do.”
“I'm a well-intentioned plotter who ends up with wondrous pantsing revelations and (at times) ginormous rewrites that look almost nothing like my carefully plotted plans.”

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