"For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity."

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Source : "Sundance Interview with Lynn Shelton - Director of Touchy Feely". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, womenandhollywood.com.

Lynn Shelton

#Oddities Quotes #Diversity Quotes #Important Quotes

“Legal aid... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice.”
“You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”
“Conforming is not cool.”
“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.”
“I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.”
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”

Source : Zhuangzi, Gia-fu Feng (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage
“When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul.”

Source : Jean Rhys (1985). “Tales of the wide Caribbean”, Heinemann Educational Publishers
“Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.”

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