Jeanine Basinger Quotes

“Deanna Durbin's movies are about innocence and sweetness. They're from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression, poverty, war, death, and loss. Audiences then were willing to pretend, to enter into a game of escape. No one really thought that the world was like a Deanna Durbin movie, they just wanted to pretend it was for about an hour and a half.”

“Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.”

“Sometimes I daydream about merging my body with my computer so that I can more fully enter the landscapes of Google Earth, lush surface world without pollution or traffic, planet seen from the vantage point of space and roving surveillance vehicles, a motionless field, magnifying the normal imperfections and irregularities of the earth so that the planet is rendered transparent, misshapen and yet intoxicating in its languishing distinction from the real.”

“Durbin's sunglasses were gone, and his gray eyes sparkled up at her. He winked. "Take care of yourself, Dr. Venkman."Lena bit back a grin. "You too, Dana Barrett.”

“To live in this world, I realized, is to leave pieces of your heart in various places; and to move toward any place is to move away from another.”

“Teachable moments are any time that you use situations to dialogue with your child about what's going on- what he or she has seen, heard, or done. As this passage from Deuteronomy (Deut. 6:6-7) describes, teachable moments can be any time you and your child are together.”

“Once you put yourself on the lookout for teachable moments, you'll find them everywhere!”

“Encourage obeying "all the way, right away, and in a happy way.”

“When Praying, I just said sorry and amen. sorry again”

“You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.”