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My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera. ↗

— Franka Potente

#acting school #always #background #because #camera

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#aware #born #brought #clan #deeply

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#hungry #knowledge #new #new knowledge #species

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #diminish #early #early work #foreground

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#advance #encountering #explore #i #i see

Make measurable progress in reasonable time. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#measurable #progress #reasonable #time

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#agree #always #business #them #two

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#degree #great #great literature #language #literature

All great art is born of the metropolis. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#born #great #great art #metropolis

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#grows #humanity #manure #rich #soil