"Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!"

-- Helen Keller

#Inspirational Life Quotes #Life Is Short Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.”
“Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced -- there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail.”
“As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends.”
“I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.”
“Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.”

Source : Norman Douglas (1932). “Paneros, Some Words on Aphrodisiacs and the Like”
“Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.”
“There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.”
“My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my life 365 days, moments from those days, it will reflect and it will have connection with lives of all of us.”

Source : "Short Films Coming Soon to an iPod Near You". "All Things Considered" with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. November 5, 2006.

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