Refabrication Quotes

#1. I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.

Charlie Kaufman

#2. Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing ... And never take advice, including this.

Katherine Anne Porter

#3. We must distinguish better than some of our predecessors between desirable ends and unacceptable means.

Tony Judt

#4. There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.

Heather Day Gilbert

#5. Keeping with our family tradition of sending their children abroad for a couple of years, and aware of my interest in chemistry, I was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland when I was 11 years old, on the assumption that German was an important language for a prospective chemist to learn.

Mario J. Molina

#6. Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

Tom Boellstorff

#7. The financing of my films has always been international.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

#8. When you are down and out, find something or someone to love.

Jon Jones