"Sometimes isolation can be shared."

-- Ken Grimwood

#Sometimes Quotes #Isolation Quotes

“Sometimes I fantasize about learning to write in Khmer. Because if I could write in Khmer, my perspective would be very different, because I'm both an outsider and insider and I see the writing in a different way. My description would be different from, say, a local writer.”
“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it”

Source : Alfred Whitney Griswold (1959). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”
“The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.”
“My main competitor is myself.”
“Now, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily in my mind and nor was it on these poor cowboys, who - many of whom who've died of emphysema since we were shooting.”

Source : "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.
“Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.”
“No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?”

Source : "Wayne Shorter On Jazz: 'How Do You Rehearse The Unknown?'". "All Things Considered " with Laura Sullivan, www.npr.org. February 2, 2013.
“The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.”

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