Larkspurs On Slope Quotes & Sayings

stage-managing reality programming to extract a desired emotional response from viewers, the subjects of these series — Michael Essany

Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it. — David Brinkley

It's true--I can see it now--we are made of where we've come from, molded by landscape, weather, harbors, hunger, and war, as much as by individual ancestors. The experience of the place--its struggles, strife, and horrors--accrues, even if we haven't personally experienced it. We are, still, its inevitable consequence. — Deborah Tall

When I make a film, it is a sleep in which I am dreaming. — Jean Cocteau

Be yourself, love yourself,
be somebody then give yourself. — Debasish Mridha

As language is sometimes audible before senses arrives. — Henri Cole

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines
it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits. — Robin Sloan

What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does. — S.J. Rozan

Can I play?" she asked finally, understanding, even at six, that the timidity of the question invited a single reply. "No." Looking to each other, not to her. She watched them. The orders they barked were low and intimate, running under the sound of the wind. "Can I have a man?" she asked. "No," again, but now their parents on the blanket together looked toward them. — Alice McDermott

Until I have learned how to express myself as a human, I will not consider speaking as a god. — Michael Walterich

We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door. — Eric Weiner