Tamahine Movie Quotes & Sayings

Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art. — Jerome Charyn

A friend argues that Americans battle between the "historical self" and the "self self." By this she means you mostly interact as friends with mutual interest and, for the most part, compatible personalities; however, sometimes your historical selves, her white self and your black self, or your white self and her black self, arrive with the full force of your American positioning. Then you are standing face-to-face in seconds that wipe the affable smiles right from your mouths. What did you say? Instantaneously your attachment seems fragile, tenuous, subject to any transgression of your historical self. And though your joined personal histories are supposed to save you from misunderstandings, they usually cause you to understand all too well what is meant. — Claudia Rankine

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious
for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: "Oh, but you forget the good God." Apparently they conceive of the Deity add a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes. — Bertrand Russell

Some people think I enjoy debate. I don't. I wish everyone agreed with me; it would save a lot of time. — Bill Maher

Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting process around a video, but when you're writing a song sometimes it'll be a very visual song. — Luke Hemmings

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.
— Mariane Pearl

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. — Leo Tolstoy

If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed. — Sparky Anderson

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation. — Walter Hill

It is a long time ago. So many lives ago
I get them all confused, don't you? — Kim Stanley Robinson

Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them. — Rachel Roy