"Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she creates an alley, a neighborhood, a history that is as rich and tragic as any Shakespearean tale."

-- Walter Mosley

#Heart Quotes #Hands Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.”
“Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.”
“We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.”

Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.215, Zed Books
“The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.”
“What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but whilst it proceeds from a real passion inherent in our nature, it is sufficient to demonstrate that we are born with a repugnancy to the killing, and consequently the eating of animals; for it is impossible that a natural appetite should ever prompt us to act, or desire others to do, what we have an aversion to, be it as foolish as it will.”
“I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.”
“Evil on itself shall back recoil.”
“A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on the computer. However, for us, when we were making it, we had to believe it was all handcrafted.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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