Frida Farrell quotes

“It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get a story out, rather than writing a book.”
-- Frida Farrell

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#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I considered writing a book too, but I think people don't like to read, to be honest - they want to watch. People want to see crazy things, so we decided to make a film ["Selling Isobel"] instead.”
-- Frida Farrell

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“[The kidnapping] happened 14 years ago, and I didn't talk about it for ten years because I was too embarrassed. I was too scared. I thought, People are gonna judge me, they're gonna pity me, and I don't want that. Because I'm not a victim - I'm a survivor.”
-- Frida Farrell

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“I was very concerned about who was going to take my story and realize it, so I was very particular and spent a lot of time going over things with him, talking about how I wanted it to be told.”
-- Frida Farrell

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#Talking Quotes #Stories Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“We reached a compromise [in film "Selling Isobel" ] - arty on the one hand, raw and crazy on the other.”
-- Frida Farrell

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#Crazy Quotes #Hands Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“After the last screening [of "Selling Isobel" ] an 18-year-old girl came up to me and said, "Oh my God, I'm so naïve." I said, "No, you're not, you're just young." And she's so grateful for having seen it, because she's an actress and from now on she's going to take a friend with her to auditions and let her mom know exactly where she's going. That's a job done right there.”
-- Frida Farrell

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#Girl Quotes #Mom Quotes #Jobs Quotes

“Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.”

“To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.”

“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”

“The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.”

“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.”

“I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.”

“Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.”

Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”