Barbara Steele quotes

“Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.”
-- Barbara Steele

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“Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.”
-- Barbara Steele

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“I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.”
-- Barbara Steele

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“After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.”
-- Barbara Steele

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“I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.”
-- Barbara Steele

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“I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.”
-- Barbara Steele

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“If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.”
-- Barbara Steele

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“The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.”
-- Barbara Steele

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“You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.”

“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.”

Source : Susan Dunlap (2012). “The Bohemian Connection”, p.7, Open Road Media

“Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.”

“Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State ... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.”

“The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.”

“The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.”

Source : Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

“The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.”

“What we take for granted might not be here for our children.”

“When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?”

“Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...”