"No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed"

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Joey Lauren Adams

#Home Quotes #Hands Quotes #Jumping Quotes

“Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of modesty, moderation, compassion, and consideration (not just one society's rules and regulations), the wisdom of seeing things as they are (not of merely collecting "facts" about them), and the happiness of being in harmony with the Way (which has nothing to do with self-righteous "spiritual" obsessions and fanaticism). And you will live lightly, spontaneously, and effortlessly.”
“This statement, this transgression, this issue whereas if you look at the Fox News poll - CNN, ABC, NBC, everybody was there."CBS" polls, you see that Americans were very focused on jobs and the economy, health care, immigration, terrorism. I mean, the cues and clues to this election were right in front of him the whole time.”
“I really want to continue what I've already started with found sounds, but start borrowing from my past as well, so that it really spans me growing up.”
“Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.”
“Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you donâ€™t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesnâ€™t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.”
“Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names â€¦Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.”

Source : "The Flame is Green" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1971.
“Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?”
“What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.”

Source : Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.115, Vintage

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