"Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later."

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Julius Lester

#Years Quotes #Months Quotes #Feels Quotes

“I am not interested in simply working as a director. If I am not making movies that I want to make, that I feel passionate about, or that I feel are hopefully at the level of cinematic quality that I feel they should be then I am not really that interested.”
“People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.”
“Wives, girlfriends, fiancees - clean out your closets. I'm cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions.”
“Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.”
“Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.”
“People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.”
“When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is sufficient reason not to believe in any of them.”
“Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.”

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