"I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story."

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Haile Gerima

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.”
“I don't have time for any special skin routines. Many a night I go to bed with the gloppy mascara and all.”
“I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.”
“Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.”
“ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.”
“Like most actors, I've always been grateful for Chinese restaurants; they were often the only places that stayed open late enough for performers to get hot food after the show.”
“Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)”
“I want to get a real sense of intimate connection with each of the animals - with that particular lion or elephant in front of me. I believe that being that close to the animal makes a huge difference in the photographers ability to reveal its personality. You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.”

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