"I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things my character has served me well it has made me. well, an eighteenth -century man of letters, though one who happens to be female and lives in twentieth-century Berkeley."

-- Wendy Lesser

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“Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it's great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed.”

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“We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.”
“In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.”
“I went to the butchers to buy a leg of lamb. "Is it Scotch?", I asked. "Why?" the butcher said in reply. "Are you going to talk to it or eat it?". "In that case, have you got any wild duck?". "No", he responded, "but I've got one I could aggravate for you."”
“I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.”
“I am the sum total of what I have been confessing through the years.”
“We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isnâ€™t true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison.”
“Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.”

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