"A lot of people started asking me about this woman director thing, which I never thought about before. And I'd never really thought about how there aren't really many female directors. I knew it, but I'd never really sat down and thought about the implications of that, and what it meant for a woman to make a movie, and how it's viewed differently when a woman makes a movie about women."

-- Sophia Takal

#People Quotes #Female Quotes #Sat Quotes

“I am serious about not being serious”

Source : "Snaps by Elliott Erwitt - review" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2013.
“It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.”
“This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.”
“In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.”

Source : 1965 TheAnatomy of BritainToday, ch.9.
“I try to explain the difference to a client between cleaning and restoration.Cleaning is simply removing some light to moderate soils. Restoration is removing those hardened deposits and stains that require heavier cleaners and much more time. Or on a building that has just been built or renovated it's removing all the construction debris. Setting expectations can go a long way to having and keeping satisfied customers.”
“Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.”

Source : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The morning is near us: a novel”, Stokes
“The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 340-42, The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), chapter XV, 1922.
“As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.”

Source : Miguel Serrano (1997). “C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships”, p.14, Daimon

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