"I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death."

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Source : "Interview, Audio: Director Ana Lily Amirpour Stirs up 'The Bad Batch'". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.imdb.com. June 21, 2017.

Ana Lily Amirpour

#Modern Quotes #Stillness Quotes #Modern Society Quotes

“When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.”

Source : "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.
“I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.”

Source : Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.180, Penguin
“I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.”
“The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently of our perspectives and interests.”
“All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.”
“We are not the reason the gospel works; the gospel is the reason the gospel works.”
“I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.”
“God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.”

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