"Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Fashion Quotes #Taste Quotes

“The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.”
“I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.”
“Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.”
“We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.”
“A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“The tears of God are the meaning of history”

Source : Nicholas Wolterstorff (1987). “Lament for a Son”, p.90, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.”
“(The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths they go to to protect him. They, I believe, will spout this racist line if some of their colleagues up here aren't doing it aggressively enough. There is going to be a real desperation.”

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