"I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it."

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Georgia O'Keeffe

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“I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.”
“I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.122, Petrarca Press
“What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.”
“Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.”
“I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.”
“the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.”
“It's good to be different.”
“There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.”

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