"That's what all these studios do: They recruit people who've seen certain films. It's this weird, fake science-y thing the studios call a "tool." That's a very scary process, because it can be used in odd ways. But then there's focus groups and stuff like that. I was so nauseous and terrified, and then you get the cards: very good, good, recommend."

-- Tamara Jenkins

#People Quotes #Fake Quotes #Focus Quotes

“When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.”
“All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.”
“There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.”

Source : "In Full: Cameron Victory Speech". news.bbc.co.uk. December 06, 2005.
“You can't motivate a student you don't know.”
“Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.”
“The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.”
“I don't intentionally try to find the scripts with unattractive characters, but I think that if a character is described in a script as heart-stoppingly beautiful, and there's nothing else said about her, it just doesn't hold a lot of interest for me.”
“In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.”

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