"It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die."

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Source : "12 Quotes By 5 Female Filmmakers at Chapman: 'It's Not a Level Playing Field, Get Over It'" by Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 27, 2012.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Army Quotes #People Quotes #Film Quotes

“I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.”

Source : "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics". Book by George Reisman, 1995.
“I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.”
“It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an improviser. And then you think about it for a minute, and I smartened up and realized that the only way to sustain a career is to generate your own material. Or to be in control of your career as best you can. And in allowing yourself to do that it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And then you're like "Oh, producing is a thing."”

Source : "Rob Corddry on Pain & Gain, Being from Boston, and Absurdity". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.
“When deeds speak, words are nothing.”
“I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.”
“The drama is the book of the people.”

Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.87
“Easy writing makes hard reading.”

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