"I tend to write about people. I look at things from the bottom up and from the perspective of outsiders. A part of me just identifies with them. It's my messed up internal nature that I always feel like an outsider. It's just my nature. At film festivals, I was an outsider for sure, but I always felt like one as well. I have that feeling at parties, too. I don't belong there."

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Source : Source: film.avclub.com

Alex Kotlowitz

#Party Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
“A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.”

Source : Italo Calvino (1986). “Mr. Palomar”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.”
“It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.”
“I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.”
“Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough”
“It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.”
“It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.”

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