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The single greatest influence on my work as a filmmaker has been the celebrated Interviews with Francis Bacon (1980) by David Sylvester. Sylvester is a master of the art of complicity: he knows how to manipulate and exploit it. Complicity requires being cautiously intellectual yet profoundly human in the sense that the interviewer must act as the concerned midwife, allowing the interviewee to express himself while at the same time guiding his thoughts to a satisfactory conclusion through sensitive provocation.
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Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.

Sylvia Plath

— 1961  'Morning Song', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel,1965).

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Opportunity marries with circumstance and is midwife to the resultant bartering of public office. The mutuality is advantage to the parties involved merely facilitates the spread of such practices. When it reaches the point of being commonplace and is pragmatically perceived as the most practical means of getting things done, it has become systemic and difficult to eradicate.

ratu joni madraiwiwi

— Opening remarks to Transparency International Pacific Regional Meeting, 13 April 2005

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No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

Daniel Ken Inouye

— 1987  Response to  Adm  John M Poindexter and Lt Col Oliver L North's contention that their actions were greatly influenced by 'a dangerous world'. In the NewYork Times, 24  Jul.

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Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world’s policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world’s midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.

jeane kirkpatrick

— Dictatorship and Double Standards, Commentary (New York, Nov. 1979), quoted in The Columbia World of Quotations, 1996[4]

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I dreamed about Jimi Hendrix he came back for one day was born weepin' out of an egg the mid-wife said and straight away began to pray with lifted head

mike scott

— "The Return of Jimi Hendrix"

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There is a certain justice in criticism . The critic is like a midwife a tyrannical midwife.

stephen spender

— Lecture at Brooklyn College, as quoted in The New York Times (20 November 1984)

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O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act I, scene 4, line 54.

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