"I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good."

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Eleanor Catton

#Disappointment Quotes #Effort Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.”
“Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.”
“You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then out again to revisit the image in a completely different way. I'm interested in that space between text and image. The piece becomes the negative space between the two.”
“I was always sort of ahead of myself in some way, shape or form and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being of being free and having a creative agency, so to speak.”
“They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.”
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
“We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.”
“Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression. You are never the master of the story, just a part of it. But writing and directing give you the power of the gods.”

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