"It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves."

-- Dorothy Gilman

#Journey Quotes #Choices Quotes #Design Quotes

“Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!”
“Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.”
“I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.”
“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.”
“I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.”
“The best way to fill time is to waste it.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.123, Grove Press
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ...”
“I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.”

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