"People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age."

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Source : Ted Godwin, Luther Pokrant (2002). “The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual”, p.72, University of Regina Press

Ted Godwin

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“I had no plans to be a director.”
“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”

Source : Notes on Hospitals Preface
“Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.”
“Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.”
“The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.”
“I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from?.”
“When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.”
“And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.”

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