"There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate."

-- Todor Zhivkov

#Common Quotes #Problem Quotes #Balkans Quotes

“Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters”
“So briefly do we raise our heads, so quick sink back. For a moment we are lifted by a wave of time, are tossed up into the sunlight of consciousness We cannot see so far as where this wave began, but maybe we have waited some thousand years for it to come, and now it is on us. This is our moment, the wave is breaking. The crest which passes through us now in tumult was shaped by the past, and we in this moment are able to shape the crest which is to come.”
“If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.”
“I find that I'm always struggling with the noise of the city. When I get a good take, there will be a horn or a siren or something. So it makes me very conscious of outside sounds, which in a way maybe led me to incorporate the field recordings.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“An author's first duty is to let down his country.”
“Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.”
“Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.”
“Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story.”

Source : "Until It Isn’t". Interview with Giuseppe Taurino, americanshortfiction.org. July 15, 2014.

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