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Whit Stillman Quotes

Producers have a tendency to put you in a pigeonhole: 'What does this white, middle-aged preppy know about 1960s Kingston?'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: January 25, 1952

Topics

You White Know Middle-Aged 1960s

The first time I came to New York - and the first time I saw the movie 'Paris Is Burning' - I learned about the homeless LGBT culture in New York City that goes back to the '80s. I found that very interesting, and it's definitely something that I care about.

Time Culture New York City Homeless

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.

Reality Congress Kind Way Difficult

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

Amanda Lindhout

Freedom Words Free You Know Only

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

History You Look Emotions Monarchy

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

London Neighborhood Very South

I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that screen.

People Short Doing Seeing Something

Politicians have conflicting values but not conflicting knowledge.

Louis B. Rosenberg

Knowledge Values Politicians

I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

Work Mother Age Me Building Book

It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.

Brittany Murphy

Mind Way Write Frank Blows Miller

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Love Truth Honor Friends First Us

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

Learning Home Children Strong First

Technology has been the great equalizer: you can find your audience, you can build your brand, and the people that are into you, great. They're going to follow you to whatever platform you go to.

Phoebe Robinson

Technology Great People Brand You

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