"There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say."

-- John Updike

#Neglected Quotes

“I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down.”

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“I think we create our world through stories. We use storytelling to escape or protect ourselves from the unimaginable and the horrible - from the real, in a way. It's like white light - if you put everyday reality through a prism you get this rainbow of colors that you couldn't see before. I'm interested in exploring the world to show the things that are invisible. And not just undocumented aspects of reality, but to actually make manifest things that have been hitherto invisible through the intervention of filmmaking.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.”

Source : "Perspectives on Richard Ford". Book by Huey Guagliardo, p. 139, 2010.
“Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: 'Its beauty.'”
“Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.”
“The coward only threatens when he is safe.”
“I love the spirit of young girls and women and try to keep that spirit alive in my life and in my own personality as well as facilitate that spirit to have a place of respect and honor in our society. I am a firm believer that if we turned the running of the world over to the women things would improve markedly in many of the areas in which we find ourselves in trouble: war, poverty, hunger, illiteracy, sexual violence, prejudice, etc.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.”

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