"I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different - and better - possible. We really need to squarely face the issue of child abuse in America, and to look at our perversity, our illness."

-- Laura Mullen

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“Photography is a life of learning. That's all I want from photography. I don't want the money. I don't need the fame. I don't need the admiration. I'd like all of those things, but I don't need them. Because what I get from photographing is learning. I have spent my life learning by looking through a lens.”
“A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.”

Source : "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.
“My hope is that digital technology will level things out more and that it will eventually eliminate favoritism. But technology cannot do it alone. The audience has to become more discriminating as well and not buy into every big tentpole movie because they have been brainwashed into thinking that's the movie to see.”
“What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?”

Source : Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.42, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work.”
“The way to be nothing is to do nothing.”
“People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems], I think, you find a certain beauty in the questioning, and that is then poetry.”
“I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.”

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