"My own work has been influenced by my years of teaching in that it's very hard for me to be cynical. When you're working with emerging, brilliant talent, you have to believe in the future. It makes me hungry, as a 65-year-old. I'm not thinking about the time that is behind me. I'm thinking of these people that I watch to catch up with and be in their company."

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Source : Source: variety.com

Paula Vogel

#Believe Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are things in us we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when we go to a place. We have covered a stretch of our life no matter how brief it may have been but by traveling to ourselves we must confront our own loneliness. And isnâ€™t it so that everything we do is done out of fear of our loneliness? Isnâ€™t that why we renounce all the things we will regret at the end of our life?”
“Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet”
“When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.”
“Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.”
“There are some actors who can only play themselves, but good actors must really be separated from the people they play.”
“Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.”
“Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.”

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