"In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself."

-- Brenda Ueland

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“The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from a desire to compose an image for cinema. It is not my fault that when I go to Ramallah there is a checkpoint and therefore it enters my film. Tell me a way to avoid that politicized image. The fact is that the police are everywhere, the army everywhere and occupation is total. Whether it's a love story or a thriller, you place the camera and these realities will cross the frame.”
“As long as I do not take myself too seriously I should not be too badly off.”
“Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.”

Source : "The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1959.
“Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.”
“I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.”

Source : Louise Closser Hale (1912). “Her Soul and Her Body”
“I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.”
“The problem right now is jobs. The problem right now is the economy and economic growth.”
“If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.”

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