"I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong."

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Source : Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

Thelma Schoonmaker

#New York Quotes #Editors Quotes #Diplomats Quotes

“In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They accept June. They compliment its weather. They complain of the earlier months as cold, and so spend them in the city; and they complain of the later months as hot, and so refrigerate themselves on some barren sea-coast. God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.55, Reprint Services Corporation
“I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.”
“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.”
“I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scare and hard but pays off in the long run... let yourself fail. And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?”

Source : Charlie Day's Commencement Address at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, www.businessinsider.com. May 21, 2014.
“Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.”

Source : Tiffanie DeBartolo (2017). “God-Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.293, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
“I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's just hanging off a staircase or something. There's too much of this, 'don't do that'. The whole thing baffles me.”

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