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The significance of Penny’s news unsettled me. She was minding her genius. She was nurturing it and allowing it to blossom. In contrast, a married man was moving ever closer to the center of my life. She was pursuing a new dream; I was sinking deeper into an old one.
Gregory Collins • Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”
— Bob Dylan
“You’re saying it doesn’t matter what happens?” I asked. “I’m saying it’s you who decides what matters,” he said.
Gregory Collins • Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life
“The experience of a novel depends on the reader, who that person is and what they imagine in their mind. But the experience of a film depends on the director. Nothing is left to the viewer, and so a director must be intransigent.”
Gregory Collins • Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life
It’s like that with celebrities. Or at least it was with Claudia, Omar, Romy, Geraldine, even Alain. They all had a sixth sense, an understanding that the outside—their appearances and their images—belonged as much to the public as it did to them.
Gregory Collins • Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life
“And that is what I’m saying to you. Mind your genius. Listen within and mind those things that come together in you and only in you.”
Gregory Collins • Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life
I looked at the gentle arc of the horizon and I smiled softly at the girl I used to be, at her longing for the faraway. I felt her, still inside me, still yearning, still restless. And I knew she would be with me always. I leaned back. I couldn’t wait to get to America. Because if you never leave home, you will never have a home to return to. And i
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Leaving home can seem brave. You do it because you want to find out who you are. You rid yourself of everything familiar so you can uncover what is uniquely you. But what you don’t comprehend is that you can’t take yourself with you. If you do, then there you are—same you, different place. You have to let go; you have to leave yourself behind. You
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“But in ancient times it was believed that every person was born with a guiding spirit, with a genius that attended them in their life. This spirit determined their essence and their qualities. If they had an exceptional talent, it was because of their genius. But with time this changed, and genius came to refer to the talent itself and not to the
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