"Film maker Andi Olsen has a wonderful short film called Where the Smiling Ends. She waited at the Trevi Fountain in Rome and filmed the tourists only at the moment after their photos had been snapped, the moment their smiles dissolved. It's genius and heartbreaking. I think about her film when I explore the places the strips malls meet the wild world they are eating up."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Samantha Hunt

#Thinking Quotes #Heartbreaking Quotes #Genius Quotes

“Don't be afraid," I said, "We belong together." I was immediatly overcome by the truth of my own words.”
“Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.”
“One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place.”
“Freedom keeps us soaring, but quarreling destroys our ability to fly.”

Source : Victor Manuel Rivera (2010). “In Search of True Freedom”, p.40, Xulon Press
“In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.”
“The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.”
“Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?”
“Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.”

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