"Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive."

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Source : "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

Frederick Wiseman

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“You can't feel happy unless you feel free.”
“It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.”

Source : Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.216, Penguin
“It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can be fully and completely explained, in all its circumstances, without a union of several, perhaps of all, the sciences.”

Source : Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1851). “Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy”, p.174
“To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.”
“Life is about the moments: Don't wait for them, create them!”
“Be the person others can count on to get things done”
“As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.”
“Perhaps the central reason that Ahmadinejad's message, and the hundreds of thousands of voices echoing his call throughout the world, are so dangerous is because the Free World is making precious little effort to assert its own message.”

Source : "Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y Continues". www.vaildaily.com. October 07, 2007.

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