"I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face."

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Source : "Carol Anshaw And Stephen McCauley Discuss Gay Literature". Interview with Stephen McCauley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

Carol Anshaw

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“Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.”
“When I get stuck, I take a long walk outside or go to a movie. I get out of my own way so I can hear the quiet voices that hold all of the answers that connect the dots.”
“I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking”
“People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.”
“Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.”
“I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.”
“About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.”
“Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "Thatâ€™s the cycle of life. You may think youâ€™re going to die, but you live on in me. Itâ€™s thanks to you that Iâ€™m alive, because I can breathe. Itâ€™s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.”

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