"We benefited from living with [Bernard] Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances."

-- Warren MacKenzie

#Acquaintance Quotes

“Your ideas dry up sometimes, and you get lazy sometimes 'cause you're around the same people. That was the good thing about having different directors. You had to stay on your toes.”
“Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.”
“Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.”
“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
“I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.”
“I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them, but he knows also that he can escape from day to day and stay alive, and he does that because his work gives him a kick.”
“If a chemical drug like Viagra is accepted by society and by the world to ignite desire, then what is the problem with my audio-visual drug called cinema which ignites desire? Both are basically doing the same thing!”

Source : Cine Blitz magazine, www.imdb.com. May 2006.
“We create a standard for how we want to do things and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry. Mediocre people don't like high-achievers and high-achievers don't like mediocre people.”

Source : "Alabama coach Nick Saban's quest for perfection". "60 minutes" with Armen Keteyian, www.cbsnews.com. September 14, 2014.

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