"Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you."

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Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.146, Macmillan

Amy Waldman

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“Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.”
“Never try to do anything artistic when you're feeling something overwhelming. It's like driving a car: If you're experiencing road rage, pull over.”
“There are all very different directors. Some are more specific, some are calmer than others when the pressure is on, some use more colorful language and they all communicate differently. But they all have love and care in common. They are all artists. And they have voices that I believe shine through within their films. To add to that, as a director myself I have learned so much from all three. I would like to thank them for that.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.”
“The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals. ...we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes.”

Source : "Excerpts from inspectors' reports to U.N.", www.cnn.com. January 27, 2003.
“Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.”
“The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.”

Source : Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press

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