"I think that you have to have a really specific type of personality to be able to both direct and act, because it requires enormous shifts in perspective. I mean, when you're directing, you're looking at the world through a wide-angle lens, and you're seeing all of it. You know exactly what's happening in every corner of it. You know what people are going to say. You know what they're going to do. You're controlling everything."

-- Cherien Dabis

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over 4 billion years of biological evolution. Incidentally, all the organisms on the Earth are made essentially of that stuff. An eyedropper full of that liquid could be used to make a caterpillar or a petunia if only we knew how to put the components together.”
“America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.”
“Wine is a civilizing agent.”
“Well I've also kind of noticed that, whatever energy that you put out, is kind of the energy that you receive. And so people are just really lovely and kind and soft spoken with me.”
“For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt.”
“We live in a world alive with holy moments. We need only take the time to bring these moments into the light.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.11, New World Library
“All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.”
“They are all my favourites. All of them.”

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