"A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations."

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Source : Russell Page (2010). “The Education of a Gardener”, p.84, Random House

Russell Page

#Art Quotes #Eye Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.”
“I wake up every day super excited to be a woman! It's amazing. I wouldn't have it any other way. There's an incredible diversity of people writing comics right now. As a writer, there are a lot of parts that I was thinking about in terms of the specific experience of being a woman superhero and what that means - the kind of pressures that are on strong women, and how women are able to feel strong in a public world.”
“To be truly effective at content marketing, we need to excel at promotion.”
“So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine what it would be like to have to break into some house and kill a terrified woman and her children? The brutalising effect on these Israeli soldiers is disturbing.”
“I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.”
“Every dog must have his day.”
“It was fun shooting with Josh [Holloway], not just how great he is, but just how handsome he is.”

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