Relentless Construction Quotes & Sayings

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors." — Rania Attieh

Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice — Beryl Markham

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary. — Janna Malamud Smith

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror. — Jimmy Webb

I like Joaquin Phoenix. He's an amazing actor and he's so buff. — Katie Leung

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit. — Arthur Miller

No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. — Frederick Douglass

My mind is a sacred cow / bleeding in the ellipsis. — Tomaz Salamun

People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental. — Ruth Rendell