"But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal."

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Source : Frank Bidart (2002). “Music Like Dirt”, p.14, Sarabande Books

Frank Bidart

#Book Quotes #Giving Quotes #Meals Quotes

“Everyone always wants to talk about 'True Blood' and 'Battlestar Galactica' - no one's even interested in 'Durham County.' It blew my mind when I came to Canada and no one asked me about the show. So many people didn't even know about it. They didn't even know it was on the air! It's very curious to me.”
“But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative of Japan - which was, well, not what I was after. Similarly, with After Life, I deliberately set out to make a movie that was unlike what I imagined the foreign conception of Japan to be, and I figured non-Japanese wouldn't find it interesting at all.”

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“They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.”
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“After doing those MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e and Nickelback shows where the demographic is a little older, Papa Roach got a lot of fans from those tours. And now we have parents saying "Yeah my kids are into you guys!" It's cool.”
“It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.”
“Most times a person grows up gradually, but I found myself in a hurry... Hoping to find an answer, I uncovered an article about the common goldfish. "Kept in a small bowl, the goldfish will remain small. With more space, the fish will double, triple, or quadruple in size." It occurred to me then that I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life.”
“When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.”

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