"You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now."

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Source : Colson Whitehead (2007). “The Colossus of New York”, p.4, Anchor

Colson Whitehead

“I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.”
“In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well.”

Source : "Roman Coppola Talks MOONRISE KINGDOM and A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 8, 2012.
“So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.”
“I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.”

Source : "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.”
“Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.”
“Speaking as he unintentionally launched his farewell tour by announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Honestly, I had never, ever in my wildest dreams believed I would ever do this. All I wanted to do was to play it out and when it was time to go, hang it up, take off and sail into the sunset somewhere.”
“I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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