"A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy."

-- Josephine Tey

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“If you get your spirit and heart right, everything else flows from there.”
“Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering.”
“However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.”
“I was quite a reader before I became a writer.”
“You know it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try.”

Source : Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.16, Vintage
“...visual truth lies in the structure of light.”
“While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.”
“When you're doing an investigation of a company that is doing things that they don't want to be found out, and they say, "I don't want to be on tape," you're not suddenly going to step away and say, "Okay, I'm not going to make a film."”

Source : "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.

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