"To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed."

-- Kathie Lee Gifford

#People Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.”
“If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind of popular stereotypical image of the black figure, in both its flatness and slightly comic edge. To take that image as a starting point and to render it in a proto-classical medium, like egg tempera, and then use a repertoire of classical compositional devices to make the picture was a way of setting up an engagement with art history.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You've only got one life and you have to live it. Take every single lesson as a learning one.”
“You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.”
“Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.”
“It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.”
“Clients don't want us to do what they ask, they want us to go further”
“The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.125, Open Road Media

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