"Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from vÃ©ritÃ© filmmaking to more archival.""

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Source : "Being Nina Simone". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.

Liz Garbus

#Choices Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Merit Quotes

“Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in it a sum of distinct operations, some intellectual, others aesthetic, yet others moral. ... It is only from within, lived to the point of terror, that it appears to unify that which discursive thought must separate.”
“Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it,”

Source : "Frederick Leboyer: 'Babies are overlooked in labour'" by Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.
“As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If sugar is the methamphetamine of processed food ingredients, with its high-speed, blunt assault on our brains, then fat is the opiate, a smooth operator whose effects are less obvious but no less powerful.”
“We feel that we are fighting for our lives and our livelihoods.”

Source : "Fans cry 'foul' in NBA standoff". www.cnn.com. November 20, 1998.
“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”

Source : Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.
“A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.”
“There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page”
“I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.”

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