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“What is fiction or cinema if not escape?”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.”
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“Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.”
Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK
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“I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.”
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“The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.”
Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.46, Petrarca Press
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“One big disturbance, I think, between L.A. and New York is that New York is so condensed and together that it's very hard to be private there. There's a lot of constant interchange, people know what you're doing all the time. Here in L.A. it's the opposite, it's very spread out, unless you make a conscious effort to go someplace and look at something, you don't see it and we hear about it. So in that sense, it's a city where you can be very anonymous if you want to be, or even if you don't want to be.”
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“Dancing is like walking.People always walk,right? For me,I always have to dance”
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“The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.”
Source : Robert K. Massie (2012). “Peter the Great: His Life and World”, p.558, Random House
