Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes

I started in documentaries, and that was a great help to me with improvisation, because with documentaries, you're handed a big lump of footage, and you have to shape it and make it into a story - which I love doing.

Thelma Schoonmaker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: algerian
  • Birth: January 3, 1940

Topics

LoveGreatMeStoryDoingHelp

Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

Jeremy Lin

FamilyFaithSportsParentsMeCare

In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.

Jenna Wortham

IdentityCuriosityAmericaWayFound

Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in our ingenuity.

Andrew Marr

GrowthPeopleStoryAliveUnderstand

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

Jeannette Rankin

PeopleCongressHalfShould

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

Mercedes McCambridge

NameLookLightsWhyNeverReal

I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don't dislike it.

Roger Federer

RedFeelOutDislikeShirtAwkward

Good enough never is.

Debbi Fields

GoodEnoughNever

Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

Arca

DreamsLiveMusicYour DreamsBest

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

Astro Teller

HealthBestPeopleCareBecoming

I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

Aubrie Sellers

PeopleThinkFakeToleranceBad

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Arthur Wing Pinero

ImaginationFinancier

I am a grizzly New Yorker.

Phoebe Robinson

I AmNewAmYorkerNew Yorker

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