"Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye."

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Janet Frame

#Writing Quotes #Eye Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.”
“Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.”
“I can't relate to the people who shoot wolves. I'm guessing the person who shot Wolf 06 wouldn't relate much to me either. You let people go out and shoot hundreds of wolves and watch violent movies, and then you're surprised when they go on a rampage shooting other humans. You can't separate violence like that.”
“Every day is a gift from God. There's no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.”
“There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.”
“In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.”
“There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.”
“The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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