"I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!"

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Source : "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

Hilary Liftin

#Thinking Quotes #Sound Quotes #Pretentious Quotes

“I think you get less takes on TV than in movies.”
“Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.”
“Yeah, about that,â€ says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. â€œDonâ€™t try something like that again.â€ â€œOr what?â€ I ask. â€œOr . . . or . . .â€ He canâ€™t think of anything good. â€œJust give me a minute.”
“I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban environment that people associate as being black. I think I was able to make a film without commenting on "black this or black that" and you still feel the presence of it. There's no one character who's saying "we're all black and we're all in this struggle." It's that you just feel it. Some of that is because we get the sense from a lot of independent films that black people struggle all the time.”
“Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's unrehearsed and clumsy!”
“The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.”
“I played a lot of music all throughout my life, actually, but in high school I was in marching band and all the bands. So, I was big into music, I was big into drawing and sculpture, and all these different things.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Yet [Georgia O'Keeffe ] always stayed true to her vision, and was at times uncompromising in following the path she saw for herself.”

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