"In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies."

-- Laura Poitras

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“When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.”
“Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.”
“Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to get mystical here, but there's an energy flow that begins with the poet, and the energy goes out to the audience, and they're energized, and then they return that energy to the poet. As someone standing up there alone, facing these people, I can feel that rapport (or its absence).”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“Opportunities don't knock, they whisper. So shut up and listen.”
“Maybe in the morning, sunlight would to turn him back into a statue; then I could take Stone out to the forest where he could frolic among the ferns, gurgle at streams, and make friends with the other interesting rocks.”

Source : Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.134, Penguin
“Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else.”

Source : Frederick H. Evans, Anne Hammond (1992). “Frederick H. Evans: selected texts and bibliography”
“Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.”

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