Sheenagh Gividen Quotes & Sayings

So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless. — Jamaica Kincaid

Man is broken down in many places because of bitterness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Labels like "bipolar" say This is why you are the way you are. This is who you are. They explain people away as illnesses. — Jennifer Niven

[Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more than just a technical innovator. Like all visionaries, he spoke the truth. And no matter how comfortable we think we are with the truth, it always comes as a profound shock when we're forced to meet it face-to-face. — Martin Scorsese

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' — Tom Stoppard