"A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together."

-- Maxine Hong Kingston

#Together Quotes #Stories Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.”
“Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties -- only benefits.”
“The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.”
“I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone it's a joke!”
“An intelligent person is someone who listens with understanding.”
“I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.”
“Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images.”
“I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.”

Source : "Patti Hansen on Keith, Drugs & Rock 'n' roll". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 22, 2011.

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