"For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it,"

-- Sarah Beeny

#Winging It Quotes #Realising Quotes #Adulthood Quotes

“I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.”
“The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.”

Source : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January, 2003.
“Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not be adjusted to it, to be willing to stand alone, if necessary, for what is right and true.”

Source : Joel Henry Hildebrand (1963). “Is intelligence important?”
“The perennial gale of creative destruction”
“To the youngsters of today, I say "Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity." Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.”
“When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.”
“Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.”
“Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block.”

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