"For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life story is always more compelling than most ads in magazines and most commercials and reality TV and all the stuff we're sold and told is valuable."

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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Victoria Mahoney

#Reality Quotes #Tables Quotes #Dinner Quotes

“I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.”
“What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if”
“The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.”
“I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.”
“Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.”
“There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness.”
“Today things are better than yesterday.”
“Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.”

Source : Benedetto Croce (1942). “Freedom: Its Meaning”

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