"The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true."

-- Alexander Payne

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.”
“The past, for everyone, is full of missed chances, surviving to understand them, if not set them straight, is one of the things that makes the next breath worth taking.”

Source : Le Ly Hayslip (2012). “When Heaven and Earth Changed Places”, p.261, Anchor
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
“You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”
“You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.”
“The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the exterior but I know that when I'm filming outside, I'm filming inside. I can only really touch the inside through the mise-en-scene. So through the mise-en-scene of the outside we can explore the inside”
“I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.”
“Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterwards we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don't know if it was the right thing to doâ€”I asked her for her autograph.”

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