"Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested."

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Source : Donald Richie (1998). “A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan”, p.16, Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

Donald Richie

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“Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.”
“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”
“I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.”
“I feel like the personal me and the artistic me are separate, but connected. It's almost like a Jekyll and Hyde thing. As much as you try to keep them apart, they end up together. I'm very much aware that when I'm miserable on the creative side - if I can't make things work a certain way - it really detracts from being the father I want to be. So in order to ultimately be a good father and the man I want to be I know I need to keep my creative side in check, or at least a little bit happy. It's weird how it's intertwined that way.”
“I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'”
“On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.”

Source : Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.3, Library of Alexandria
“Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.”
“Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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