"Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave"

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Ambition Quotes #Cradle Quotes #Graves Quotes

“Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 23, 2016
“Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.”
“It is tact that is golden, not silence.”

Source : Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types of stories that I want to tell. And I feel that just being a female director and doing that is a big deal in this country. On my third movie I worked with a French DP. I asked him has he ever worked with a woman director before? He said in France a third of directors are women; so you canâ€™t avoid them. So I realized that the US is behind.”

Source : "Interview: Kasi Lemmons & Raphael Saadiq Talk ‘Black Nativity’ – Casting, Soundtrack & More". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2013.
“If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.”

Source : "Emmanuelle Riva: 'You don't say no to a film like Amour'". Interview With Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2012.
“This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.”
“My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.”

Source : "Executive Producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman Interview FRINGE Season 4". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 23, 2011.
“Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.”

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