"I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota."

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Source : "DP Reed Morano on Making it as a Cinematographer Regardless of the ‘Female Thing’" by Reed Morano, www.indiewire.com. February 24, 2015.

Reed Morano

#Quota Quotes #Talent Quotes

“One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.”
“Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.”
“After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.”
“Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.”
“Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.”
“Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?”
“I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.”

Source : "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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