"Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Attitude Quotes #Tunes Quotes #Ears Quotes

“I'm pretty instinctual when I write, and I really like to get to a point where I'm writing where I don't know what's going to happen next. Usually when I get to that point, something will happen that I find intriguing or interesting, or that will push the fiction in a way that I really like.”

Source : "5x5: Brian Evenson". jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. January 15, 2015.
“We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.”
“The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions.”
“...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.”
“You're basically on set to help the production. You're helping the actors make it make sense, or maybe you wrote something that doesn't work in the production sense. Most of it is coming up with jokes.”
“Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.”

Source : Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899) "Tender-Heartedness"
“An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
“I was shooting all this time. And there was only one guy who helped to pull him. And I had to think whether I was going to keep shooting or help the guy. And so I kept shooting and then they put him in this little clinic, and I photographed through the window while they had to amputate his leg. And I felt very strange because I didn't - I felt I could have helped, but I didn't help. But then I also felt elated that I was getting a shot that would be important to the film.”

Source : "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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