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"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
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"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."
"Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years."
"You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right."
"I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan."
"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."
"The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament."
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"The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it."
"I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last."
"I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness."
"I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget."
"I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God."
"I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment."
"But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God."
"That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?"
"It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me."
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