"How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on."

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Source : Tanith Lee (1987). “Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter”

Tanith Lee

#Blow Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Sand Quotes

“My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.”
“When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.”
“The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.”
“The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!”
“Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.”

Source : Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.234, Simon and Schuster
“The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types of stories that I want to tell. And I feel that just being a female director and doing that is a big deal in this country. On my third movie I worked with a French DP. I asked him has he ever worked with a woman director before? He said in France a third of directors are women; so you canâ€™t avoid them. So I realized that the US is behind.”

Source : "Interview: Kasi Lemmons & Raphael Saadiq Talk ‘Black Nativity’ – Casting, Soundtrack & More". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2013.
“Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears”
“When I haven't been kissed in a long time, I create civil disturbances, then insult the cops who show up, till one of them grabs me by the collar and hurls me up against the squad car, so I can remember, at least for a moment, what it's like to be touched.”

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