"[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted."

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Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.137, Wave Books

Mary Ruefle

#Time Quotes #Might Quotes #Distraction Quotes

“I just read an article about how young American males feel uncomfortable appearing naked in front of each other in locker rooms. That was never the case when I was young. We were naked in the Army all the time. And neither actor in Call Me by Your Name appears fully naked. I think there might have been clauses in their contracts that ensured there would be no nudity. When I wrote the script, there was plenty of nudity. But the English just had none of the same squeamishness about it.”

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“I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.”
“My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.”
“I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange.”
“The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.”
“The least I can give them is the best they can get from me. What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?”
“God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful.”
“I've been ignored for 20 years but now it's heartening to get some recognition.”

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