"I spent a lot of time on Diane Arbus film, not only writing it, but running around talking through various production issues. All this crud, and then it didn't happen. There's a lot of time-wasting stuff that happens in life with movies."

-- Tamara Jenkins

#Running Quotes #Writing Quotes #Film Quotes

“I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.”
“That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.”
“I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.”
“[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.”
“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”
“There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.”
“The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.”
“When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.”

Source : "Mitt Romney Defends The Bush Record" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2010.

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