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Gordon Willis

"I wasn't trying to be different; I just did what I liked. Don't misunderstand when I say I really had no particular DP I was aspiring to be. I really fell in love with the movies as I was growing up, and I must say, I was emulating things that I saw others doing, thatâ€™s how you learn, but you soon have to push past that, and do things that you feel are rightâ€¦ or better."

Source : Interview with John Lingan, www.splicetoday.com. January 28, 2009.

Gordon Willis

#Growing Up Quotes #Past Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.”
“You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualitiesâ€¦you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It's a sort of modern magic. We think there's something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right.”
“You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.”

Source : "Platinum Blondie". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2017.
“I always acted like a star long before I was one”
“Teach us, Master, how to give All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live, Wholly, only Thine to be.”

Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.31
“A must have for women? Confidence! Be yourself!”
“Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I had gone on worshiping you as I did not long since.' And she turned away hastily, and did not see that Little John would reach out to her; and half-running, went to Tuck's cottage, where she could pull on her half-dry clothes, and become a proper outlaw again. At least, she thought, fighting back tears, like this I am Cecil, with a place among friends, and a task to do. I am someone. I wonder if perhaps if I am no longer Cecil, I am no one at all.”

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