"I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me."

-- Chuck Close

#Thinking Quotes #Realising Quotes

“The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.”
“So it sort of dawned on me that you have to build into your work the fact that it's going to be shown in different kinds of places and different kinds of light. And the fact that the surroundings and where you're going to be shown is always changing, so that should really not affect the meaning of the work. It should be part of what the work is about.”
“There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.”

Source : Rob Thomas, Jennifer Graham (2014). “Veronica Mars: An Original Mystery by Rob Thomas: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line”, p.160, Vintage
“I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.”
“To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start”
“I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.”
“What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.”

Source : "Farewell, Sarajevo". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.
“I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.”

Source : May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.70, Open Road Media

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