"I was tied down in that chair for 10 minutes and experienced what it was like to be completely powerless while someone else has complete dominance. It's sadistic, even though I find Richard to be a really lovely human being. That's what the whole film "Tickled" is about. It's not a film about tickling, but I think tickling offers a really good visual metaphor for the much bigger ideas that we were trying to get at about power and control - by people who have a lot of money - over people without money and who have no power in the relationship."

Source : "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.

David Farrier

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.”

Source : Nevil Shute (1951). “Round the bend”
“We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.”

Source : "Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award Winner". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.
“Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.”
“The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. Landays, they're about love and pleasure and oppression and levels of oppression within a family. And because of that, I think rap music is probably closely related.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons. And by chance there happen to be such women, for, as I touched on before, just as women have more delicate bodies than men, weaker and less able to perform many tasks, so do they have minds that are freer and sharper whenever they apply themselves.”

Source : "The Book of the City of Ladies". Book by Christine de Pizan, transl. by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Part I, ch. 27, p. 63, 1983.
“And finally Winter, with its bitin', and whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.”
“When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.”
“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.”

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