Neil Postman Quotes
In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
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When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.
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There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.
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Starting in 98 when I was researching Traffic, I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
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In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.
