Tutors Show Quotes & Sayings

Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a student film he particularly liked. He mentioned our film. There was a dinner after the final show just for the tutors, but I was smuggled in to meet Scorsese over dessert. — Asif Kapadia

My favorite healthy foods are Jamaican chicken soup, Jamaican chicken stew peas, Jamaican brown stew chicken, plantains and banana chips. — Sanya Richards-Ross

I've put myself to bed thinking about you, the last two nights. — Cara McKenna

I believe that there is something connecting us ... Something that was here before we got here and will still be here after we're gone. I've begun to believe that all of our consciousnesses are bound up in that greater consciousness.
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An animating presence ... [pp. 205-206] — Dani Shapiro

Nature haters? We know them too well: lifeless creatures created without emotion or aware of anything that is peripheral to their purpose. — Fennel Hudson

His cloak was Lannister crimson, but his surcoat showed the ten purple mullets of his own House arrayed upon a yellow field. — George R R Martin

People lead their real, most interesting lives under cover of secrecy — William Boyd

A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least. — Jacques Barzun

Feel the love, be the love, to spread the love. — Debasish Mridha

If men or women don't feel [the way I do], then don't live your life that way. Whatever works for your relationship. It's not just sex. I feel like that about dinner, about taking care of who you're with. — Chris Brown

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail. — Isaac Asimov

Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating. — Cornelia Funke

Show, don't tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps avoid character profiling, unactivated scenes, and broken narrative frames. — Sarah Hall