"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak."

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Source : "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger; Penguin Books, 1972.

John Berger

#Children Quotes #Looks Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Do you know that part on your resume where they ask if you have any special skills? Well, it's the thing where they ask you to list like, 'yoga, Spanish, water skiing, Photoshop.' I feel like I don't have any special skills.”
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June”
“When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.”

Source : Empire Magazine (UK), January 1996.
“One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.”
“I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.”
“Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (2004). “The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel”, p.114, Macmillan
“I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.”
“It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?”

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