"If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries."

-- Paul Fussell

#Country Quotes #Today Quotes #Publicity Quotes

“... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.”
“I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was just an infantile desire to record things. I liked saving things instead of writing.”
“I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.”
“Where beauty ends is where the artist begins”

Source : Gene Youngblood (1970). “Expanded cinema”
“I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.”
“It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. Thats one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, thats one of the greatest things Ive got going on, being a father.”
“Be there for your children. Sit on the bed and enjoy the late-night talksâ€”try to stay awake! Pray for the Lord to inspire you. Forgive often. Choose your battles. Testify frequently of Jesus Christ and His goodness and of the Restoration. And most of all, let them know of your trust in the Lord.”
“Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality”

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