"I don't think meeting people that I've done pictures of spoils it at all because I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that they're complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better - to know that they can rise above that and make something great."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Elizabeth Peyton

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Shy Quotes

“I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.”

Source : "C. Thomas Howell on The Outsiders, blackface, and how Marlboros got him cast in E.T". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.
“I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a wood, when it fell over dead, apparently from sheer temper, because I dared to approach it. It defied me first, and then died. I have never forgotten the horror and shame I experienced when that soft fluffy thing (towards which I had nothing but the most humanitarian motives) fell dead from rage at my feet.”
“That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.”

Source : "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.
“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
“Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.”

Source : "Gorilla artist Anthony Browne becomes children's laureate" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2009.
“I think it's interesting to speak when you have something to say,”

Source : "Delphine Arnault Rising". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. April 14, 2014.
“In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers”
“I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.”

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