"I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all."

-- Brian Lindstrom

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“To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.”

Source : Jessie Redmon Fauset, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (1933). “Comedy, American Style”
“I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.”
“You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under a tree; you watch and wait. At first there is nothing much to be seen. Nature looks like a whitish canvas with a few broad outlines faintly sketched in; all is misty, everything quivers in the cool dawn breeze. The sky lights up. The sun has not yet burst through the gauze veil that hides the meadow, the little valley, the hill on the horizon.. ..Ah, a first ray of sunshine!”

Source : "Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.
“This does not --ing slip now.”
“So with imagination, ingenuity and audacity, explore, discover, change the world. And have fun while you're at it. Always take time out to love and to live. You're going to be busy, but never forget family and friends.”
“I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.”
“Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 16, 2012
“Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.”

Source : "Les Prix Nobel". Yearbooks series by the Nobel Foundation, 1982.

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