Mirdza Bendrupe Quotes & Sayings

For me, the movie's always evolving as I'm doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there's a lot of wastage when I make a film. — Andrew Dominik

Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what, when, where, why of the poem), I can get to my main interest, which is the language, and where it wants to take me. If I can establish the poem's occasion in the title, then so much the better for my freedom to associate. — Anna Journey

I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn't about you. — Louise Doughty

I think America is a new country. It is a young culture. The spirit of the opening of the West is still with the Americans. It's a very practical and individual-based kind of philosophy that had worked in America for a long time, had been very successful. And the spirit is very much there. — Chen-Ning Yang

What did the poet say? That the saddest words of tongue or pen were what might have been? — Charles Todd

I hope you aren't too ugly. What a collection of scars you have. Be grateful. Our scars have the ability to give us the reality that our past is real. - Red Dragon — Anonymous

I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route. — Harriet Walter

My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very, very fine and my skin is incredibly fair and my hair is quite dark, and that's very unusual. — Andrea Riseborough