"What a person does is what he IS, not what he says."

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Source : Syd Field (2009). “Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay”, p.262, Delta

Syd Field

#Doe Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.”
“Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future. It can, and does, draw on the past in its use of existing heritages but it only does so to give point to a modern argument. In no sense is documentary a historical reconstruction and attempts to make it so are destined to failure. Rather it is contemporary fact and event expressed in relation to human associations.”
“Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.”
“Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say, 'What a pretty flower,' but that's just a mechanical mental labeling. Because they are not still, not present, they don't truly see the flower, don't feel it's essence, it's holiness-just as they don't know themselves, don't feel their own essence, their own holiness.”
“I am very sensitive to music, so I can quite easily allow myself to access that space in which I am completely taken over. And you can get quite a reaction out of the crowd when you do that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr
“...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”
“I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.”

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