"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."

-- Norman McLaren

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“Even at your best, someone will have something negative to say. Pursue Greatness anyways!”

Source : FaceBook post by Tony A. Gaskins Jr from Jun 10, 2013
“Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.”

Source : "Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture". Book by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, p. 188, 1970.
“Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.”
“And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues, casually to say hello or good-bye. You might even kiss a close friend chastely on the lips. You might quickly hug anyone you knew. You might even meet someone at a party, take him home and sleep with him, never to see him or hear from him again. But to join hands and stand holding each other that way, with the electricity of possibilities flowing between you? The tenderness of it, the promise of it, is only something you share with a few people in your life.”
“This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing is better than a great symbol of China, the Tao, the wheel of yin and yang that represents life. The universe is the harmony of opposites, because there is no water without fire, there is no female with no male, there is no night without day, there is no sun without the moon ... there is no good without evil! This symbol is perfect since the white and black are embracing each other; inside the white there is a black point and inside the black there is a white point.”
“I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.”
“Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.”
“I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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