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“You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it.”
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“With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.”
Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.”
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“In other parts of the world where I go, people are worried about, Jeez, you know, I really wanted to buy my kids shoes this year.”
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“May Sarton said, "the deeper you go, the more universal you become." It's a reminder to me that those things I try to convince myself I don't need to admit are usually those things I need the most to say. Speaking the truth, in its most poignant details, is liberating and gives those around us the freedom to be real.”
Source : "Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them". Book by Katherine Martin, 1999.
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“I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of anything sad; only to feel that I'm near you and I love you. Why should there be pain? In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That's not the deepest thing; there's something deeper.”
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“Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.”
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“I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.”
