"You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours."

--

Ann Beattie

#Character Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“One of the biggest hurdles in the path of entrepreneurship is home loans!”
“I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.”
“Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.”

Source : Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.195, Macmillan
“I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.”
“When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.”

Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.29, New York Review of Books
“Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft.”

Source : "Damian Kulash of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.”
“You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.”

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