"Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground."

-- Josh Billings

#Experience Quotes #Lucky Quotes #Grindstone Quotes

“First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Aug 21, 2013
“When you're working on a scene, both in the script phase and also in the moment, you look around and you wait for the lightning bolt to strike you and based on your instincts tell you what the right thing to do is here. And that can result in anything from a change of dialogue to the realisation that what you thought was a dramatic scene should actually have some humour. And maybe if you stage it this way it's funnier, or if you put the camera here it tells a different story. That stuff is kind of everything when you're a director.”

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com
“If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.”
“All great and precious things are lonely.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.458, Penguin
“People are like, 'How does Julianne Moore look naked?' I don't know. She was pressed up against me the whole time. I couldn't look at her.”
“Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.412, Random House
“The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
“I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted to them, and the few who have entered it are meeting with gratifying and profitable success. (1898)”

Source : Barbara L. Michaels, Gertrude Käsebier (1992). “Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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