Best Of Diana Tutton's "Guard Your Daughters"

Here is a selection of memorable quotes from Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton.

Painting above: Fantaisie sur Sylvie (c. 1910-1911) by Jacqueline Marval


"We thought it was very nice of Father to give his hardworking daughters a glass of sherry every evening, and we used to look forward to the ceremony. In fact Pandora said that the blackest time of day in her new little suburban house was sherry-time with no sherry. She felt she would never get used to doing without it." 



"I could feel her losing interest in me as she left the room, and I was a little disappointed; but I know Thisbe when she’s on a poem, and I couldn’t be resentful. On the whole she had been sympathetic." 



"“It’s never any good deciding ahead. Rather like saying you’re certain some word you’ve forgotten begins with a B, and then it always turns out to be a T or a Z.”"




Hilarious:

"Then I retired into myself, played the piano mournfully and insistently, and settled down to be a permanent member of the noble army of martyrs." 





"“Castiglione thinks that as our powers fail we begin to think the world has changed, not ourselves."




On floral arranging:

"Cressida agreed, for these delicate arrangements, showing each flower individually against its background, are just as much her strength as massed bowls are mine. I like to mix a lot of improbable colours, and to add a few more flowers when the bowl looks full. I think of this, rather priggishly perhaps, as “orchestration,” and the conjunction of orange and crimson, for instance, jogs my nerves like a good discord."





"I fetched two of Teresa’s scones, a lump of cheese and an apple, and thus supplied withdrew behind a book." 




Also hilarious:

"[...] she gloated like any Borgia over the great blown corpses of poisoned slugs." 




"She looked pleased, as one looks pleased who writes in the last word of a crossword puzzle.


"We had just escaped the sort of tragedy that one could never get over. How lucky we were. We would go on being lucky; we would have a lovely time."

Popular posts from this blog

9 Reasons Why Zack on Gilmore Girls is the Worst

Image
Of all the men in the Gilmore Girls world, I think Zack was the worst. Here's nine reasons why. I'm currently re-watching Gilmore girls for the umpteenth time, and once more I find myself loathing Zack in particular. Normally we all get caught up in Luke vs. Christopher, Dean vs. Jess vs. Logan, etc, but I think these debates distract viewers from realizing that Zack is the worst Significant Other of all the women in the show. I think the actor Todd Lowe does a great job portraying Zack, so my critique is def not his performance , my issue is the  character of Zack   who is sooo contemptible. In a way, Lowe's performance of Zack is all the more remarkable - when it comes to the Bad Men of Gilmore Girls, Zack rarely tops the list. I think it's because his many flaws are so *shrug* boys will be boys. As viewers I think we're meant to be distracted by the explosive incidents related to Logan's elitism, Mitchum's tyranny, Dean's cheating, Marty's obvio
Read more

VIDEO: Tips for Better Dailies Notes

Image
Here are 11 tips for taking better notes in dailies. If you’re in Production, good note-taking practices are essential and it never stops. As a coordinator, you might take notes for dailies. As a Production Manager or Producer you might have Production reports, all of these tasks rely on good note-taking.  A huge part of our role is data entry and management. Getting specific, let’s take a look at what you can do to take better notes in lighting/comp dailies. Even if your artists are in dailies, still make sure your notes are as specific as possible, don’t leave it to them to take their own notes, let them have that time to answer their supervisor’s questions or to focus on the feedback.  Let me be very clear: if you are in production and you are taking notes in dailies, it is your job to take accurate, efficient notes. Wherever possible, give the frame range.  Don’t just say ‘near the beginning of a shot’, say F8-12 if you can. If there are multiple characters in a scene, use their na
Read more

2 New-ish Perspectives on Work-Life Balance

Image
Who needs work-life balance when you can 'Drop the Ball' or put your priorities 'in conversation' with one another? With the onset and endurance of the COVID19 pandemic, there have been many hot takes and disturbing changes in work-life balance. All over North America at least, we have seen women drop out of the workforce at such an alarming rate that many experts are calling this pandemic-induced trend a “shecession”. In animation, we have fortunately been able to work from home, though the balance between work and life has become a lot more blurred, if existing at all. Production staff and supervisors have observed a rise in ghost hours - people quietly logging on and working on their shots or assets at all times of the day, night, weekends because our work is well, there . This is a very complicated issue, and as I am neither an economics or business expert, I wanted to offer two specific takes on work-life balance, one from Tiffany Dufu and the other from David Why
Read more