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Quotations on Diaries 10 Quotes Found Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel. But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education. It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time. You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it. History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him. Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English. Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it. I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens. |
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