"You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well."

-- John D'Agata

#Community Quotes #Way Quotes #Peers Quotes

“I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project, or trying to get involved with a project, or thinking about a project, and what particular emotional flavor that brings. To me, it's never really about planning the next thing, or the career arc. It's about investigating how I feel, from project to project, and finding things that I haven't explored and what that would be like.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Always time to dream, so keep on dreaming!”
“As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., Peer Schneider, Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.
“It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.”

Source : "12 Quotes By 5 Female Filmmakers at Chapman: 'It's Not a Level Playing Field, Get Over It'" by Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 27, 2012.
“A curious thing about Ugu the Shoemaker was that he didn't suspect in the least that he was wicked. He wanted to be powerful and great, and he hoped to make himself master of all the Land of Oz that he might compel everyone in that fairy country to obey him, His ambition blinded him to the rights of others, and he imagined anyone else would act just as he did if anyone else happened to be as clever as himself.”
“You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.”

Source : Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
“The major problems facing the development of products that are safer, less prone to error, and easier to use and understand are not technological: they are social and organizational.”
“Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.”

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