"Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled matter-something vital that we cannot build out of these parts. There is surely something else, some piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and that owes no homage to the sun."

-- Walker Evans

#Life Quotes #Reality Quotes #Important Quotes

“I have such incredible friends in L.A. that are pretty much my family now - I mean, outside of the family I have back in Canada - but they just supported me so hard and believed in me when I barely believed in myself anymore. I still can't thank them enough. They mean the world to me.”

Source : "Chasing Life Actress Italia Ricci: Uncertainty and Sticking It Out". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
“What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in.”
“I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.”
“Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.”
“I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.”
“Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.”
“The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.”

Source : "Takafumi Horie Talkasia Transcript". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.
“Do for yourself, for no one else will.”

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