"No, let the monarch's bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold."

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Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

John Wolcot

#Gold Quotes #Bags Quotes #Als Quotes

“Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.”

Source : "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.
“If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you wonâ€™t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you wonâ€™t be happy.”
“I can't get married. I can't fake sleep for 30 years.”
“I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.”
“The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium.”

Source : THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1903). “PONKAPOG PAPERS”
“For me, as a mother, I am just, you know, I just can't put into words how important it is for every American, for every mother, for every person in this country, to have healthcare.”
“...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future - causing them caution and remembrance and realization.”

Source : W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”
“The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.”

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