"We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good."

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Source : Source: www.salon.com

Joan Wallach Scott

#Community Quotes #Common Quotes #Common Good Quotes

“The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.”

Source : Claude Debussy, Ferruccio Busoni, Charles Ives (1962). “Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music: Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater”
“Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.”
“To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.”
“A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.”
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
“When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.”
“Christian! His parents had nine months to to think of a name, and the best they came up with was Christian!? My parents had nine months and they didn't call me Jew!”
“In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.”

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