"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."

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Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2007). “Composing a Life”, p.111, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#Knowledge Quotes #Giving Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.”
“In other words, learn your Scruggs's rolls before trying to play like Bela Fleck.”
“Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.”
“The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.”
“When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.”
“Filming is repetition and many takes”
“The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a [doll's] face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my camera; it's just this mental investment that I make, and suddenly, everything changes. Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them. That's something I really wanted to get out there right away.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.”

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