"Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption."

-- Mary Roberts Rinehart

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“There was no actually stock footage in "Medium Cool." I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the film in the park during the demonstrations. But nowhere was it like we had stock footage and then later, in editing, integrated it into the film. It was all done at the time.”

Source : "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.
“You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.”
“Failure and setbacks and struggles are where all the good stuff happens.”
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
“I grew up in the 1970s and I am a product of women's liberation. My generation is really the first one to fully benefit from the movement. It's the same for homosexuals. We are the first generation to really accept that someone is gay. I work with people who are gay and of course I don't think about it. I don't care if someone lives with a man. Twenty years ago it was an issue. Now it's not.”
“The best thing about London is Paris,”

Source : "Diana Vreeland: five things you need to know about the Oscar Wilde of fashion" by Lauren Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.
“Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.”
“I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.”

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