I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. ― Marilyn Monroe

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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.

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I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

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As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and give everything to the camera. - Luca Guadagnino

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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. – William Hazlitt

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And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. ― Libba Bray

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Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.

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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change. – Bangambiki Habyarimana

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