"I made the transition to directing documentaries with the great help of my Co-Director on The World According to Sesame Street, Linda Hawkins Costigan. She was a gracious teacher, and a wonderful collaborator."

-- Linda Goldstein Knowlton

#Teacher Quotes #Directors Quotes #Transition Quotes

“Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.”

Source : Gary Snyder (1974). “Turtle Island”, p.101, New Directions Publishing
“I think your vision gets better as you get older.”
“Christ sits in the body at the right hand of God the Father, but we do not hold that the right hand of the Father is actual place. For how could He that is uncircumscribed have a right hand limited by place? But we understand the right hand of the Father to be the glory and honor of the Godhead in which the Son of God, Who existed as God before the ages, and is of like essence to the Father, and in the end became flesh, has a seat in the body, His flesh sharing in the glory. For He along with His flesh is adored with one adoration by all creation.”
“For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.”
“LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”
“Turkey's relations with its immediate neighbors are improving. They were pretty bad for a long time - with Syria they were abominable, and with Iran they were pretty bad. In both cases Turkey sees potential for trade, especially with Iran, where it gets a lot of natural gas. In good times Iran and Turkey find mutually profitable objects of exchange, but with Syria things have been very bad; Syria doesn't have much money and never will.”
“No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.”
“We all stick up for ourselves and I think that's why we stand out, because we really don't care what other people think”

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