"Unbalance so as to re-balance."

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Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.21, New York Review of Books

Robert Bresson

#Balance Quotes

“In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.”
“Work at what you love the most, even if you're only a two. Trust that your love for what your are doing will see you through. That's not easy, but better to grow into what you love than to pretend you're satisfied with a developmental dead end.”
“As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.”
“When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from Mar 06, 2014
“It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.”
“The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.”
“For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even less of this valuable substance scenting him and the very air about him there can be no doubt of the matter; and such is the nature of the human mind that he experiences a far greater real benefit than the drug itself would provide, were it deprived of its stench.”

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