Obomsawin Alanis Quotes & Sayings

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer. — Luanne Rice

HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred. — J.C. Ryle

More on this in chapters 7 and 8.) Getting Value from Entrepreneurial Talent We three authors come from a business environment where the employment alliance — Reid Hoffman

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk. — Alanis Obomsawin

Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have been very valuable for the people, for our people to look at ourselves, at the situations, really facing it, and through that being able to make changes that really count for the future of our children to come. — Alanis Obomsawin

I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry. — James Vincent McMorrow

I love you a ten. - Savannah to Ken — Suzanne Brockmann

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly. — Fred Thompson

Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself. — Thich Nhat Hanh

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story
so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change. — Alanis Obomsawin

My first super-worn-out tapes were Michael Jackson's 'Bad' and the soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing.' The soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing' is actually really phenomenal. — Autre Ne Veut

As soon as we fall in love and we realise we've met the one the rest of our lives can't come soon enough. It's not like you're in a rush to get to the finish line, you're in a rush to feel and experience everything and then do it all again. — Johnny Depp

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut. — Alexander McQueen

Waban-aki: People from where the sun rises. — Alanis Obomsawin

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. — Mignon McLaughlin

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return. — George Stillman Hillard

So, I'm 34. I'm kind of becoming an adult - kind of, I guess. But I know that I am because, the other day, I said to somebody, 'Dude, dude, don't - those are the good plates. — Greg Behrendt

It's a reality of film festivals that you can't see everything. You're dividing your time between seeing films and utilizing that unique space to have meetings with people that you can't otherwise. — Thom Powers