"Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct."

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Source : "Achieving The Impossible". Book by Lewis Gordon Pugh, 2010.

Lewis Gordon

#Decision Quotes #Tides Quotes #Instinct Quotes

“When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.”

Source : "Salli Richardson-Whitfield: The “I Will Follow” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. August 18, 2001.
“Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.”
“To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.”
“A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.”
“I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.”
“Without time,â€ the angel said, â€œyou have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity.â€ â€œFYI, philosophy bores me.â€ â€œNot philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.”
“Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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