"I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your lives intertwined, but in the end another soul can be fundamentally unknowable. And I think that the stress of war, when one party goes away and the other has to deal at home, is a really testing time in a lot of marriages."

-- Geraldine Brooks

#War Quotes #Stress Quotes #Party Quotes

“Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.”
“The border between music and noise is always culturally definedâ€”which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be”
“I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.”
“To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.”
“I think that until a filmmaker knows that about him- or herself, the films they make will just be copies of other people's work. It's important for anyone who wants to make films for a living, but I think perhaps it has an even greater weight for female filmmakers since they represent a much smaller percentage of the population. Their voices are fewer so they must be even stronger.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.”
“I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.”

Source : Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company
“You can not understand "Scripture" without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees.”

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