"Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity."

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Marilynne Robinson

#Philosophy Quotes #Book Quotes #Eye Quotes

“He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.”
“Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.”
“My job is just to make the films and then I don't have any strategy.”
“One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the higher status uses I-words less (yes, less) than people who are low in status.”

Source : "The Secret Language Code". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. August 16, 2011.
“As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.”

Source : Jerome Rothenberg (1981). “Pre-faces & Other Writings”, p.36, New Directions Publishing
“Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.”
“In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.”
“So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.”

Source : "Harry Potter's Helen McCrory: 'Most Child Actors are Freaks'". ITN Interview, www.digitalspy.com. November 29, 2011.

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