"By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it - and what other things you don't hear - you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character,"

-- Walter Murch

#Character Quotes #Mind Quotes #Stories Quotes

“First,â€ he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, â€œchoose your tomato.â€ He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. â€œGood. Now pick up the knife.â€ â€œDoes the chef always stand this close?â€ I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. â€œWhen heâ€™s revealing culinary secrets, yes.”
“Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.”
“The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.”
“Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.”
“When you are mad at yourself, you are mad at everybody.”
“The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.”

Source : "The doctor undaunted by Somalia's insurgents" by Laila Ali, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2011.
“As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.”
“Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.”

Source : "On the Possibilities of Painting". Lecture, Sorbonne, May 15, 1924.

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