Reserves

The kind of people who were out of reserves, of humor, compassion, even anger. Paper thin people who I couldn't bear to spend soul-sucking minutes with. The bereft room looking for a roommate on top floor overlooking Park Slope brewery. Marion of Carroll St a bit, though she was a little funny, a little wise,…

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Ken Loach

The director's job is to let the actor be as good as they can possibly be. If they aren't then the director has failed. Always shoots in sequence.

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People going down

grab for excuseseffuse accusationsgrapple friends into a deathlock down remember A. D. Smith said recently, the most productive time of life is that when you own responsibility for who you are. blame, while it may be true, even therapeutic at times, drags like a g-force on your life

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Ray Bradbury’s “Dial Double Zero” film

I never thought to look for it til now, but this was the film I saw at Valley Forge Elementary, in fourth or fifth grade, that totally captivated my imagination and made me want to become a writer. http://ia311038.us.archive.org/0/items/RayBradburyStoryOfAWriterByDavidL.Wolper/Ray_Bradbury-Story_of_a_Writer_512kb.mp4?RayBradburyStoryOfAWriterByDavidL.Wolper/Ray_Bradbury-Story_of_a_Writer_512kb.mp4

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time is the coin of your life

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” -Carl Sandburg, US biographer and poet (1878 – 1967)

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Sid Arthur

scion of world's largest supermarket chain world's wealthiest family sees suffering, unable to act, upon death of parent, sets out to make a film that will spend every last cent. in spite of himself, becomes icon of new religion in america

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working for love

“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” Henry Drummond

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