"All things seem possible in May."

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Source : Edwin Way Teale (1951). “North With the Spring”

Edwin Way Teale

“Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.”
“The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.”

Source : "Scotland’s Indie Film 'Orphan' Peter Mullan". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. March 08, 2000.
“We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.”
“Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.”
“It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man not be driven by thwarted desire?”
“Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial.' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me.”

Source : Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”
“I was disappointed in how [Bill] Clinton, like [Jimmy] Carter, used the founders to argue for huge expansions in federal power, clearly beyond what the founders could have ever conceived.”
“A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,”

Source : "The Great Animal Orchestra". Book by Bernie Krause, March 19, 2012.

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