Shadow Documentary Festival - This festival focusses on films that bring back storytelling and auteurship to documentary filmmaking. Programs included.
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
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-- Dave Barry Festivals Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Festivals
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Festivals A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Festivals
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Festivals "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Festivals
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Festivals Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Festivals
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Festivals The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Festivals
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Festivals Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Festivals
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Festivals "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Festivals
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Festivals "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Festivals
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Festivals Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Festivals
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Festivals The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Festivals
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Festivals For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Festivals
