"If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers."

-- Donald E. Westlake

#Independent Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Roots Quotes

“I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.”
“Berlin stimulates like arsenic.”

Source : Der Querschnitt. Quoted in Gordon, Mel (2000). "Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin", front fold, 1929.
“William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?”
“Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don't actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes at the approach to the brink of what feels like a void, where the obliteration of the egoic self seems imminent. With a shocked recognition of what is being asked, the person will recoil. The scale of the loss-the dissolution of the familiar self-is beyond what was bargained for.”

Source : Jan Frazier (2012). “The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is”, p.63, Weiser Books
“I never thought I would meet Mariah Carey, but I really never thought I'd be introduced to her by Whitney Houston. She's like, 'Hey, baby, this is Mariah.' I'm like, 'I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here.'”
“To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”
“What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns appropriate to their own lives through which they can see variety, regularity, and interconnections.”
“India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.”

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