Norman Spinrad Quotes

Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself?

Norman Spinrad

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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Film
  • Latin

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • War

• Glamorized... am I glamorous?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Glamorous
  • Am

• I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Future
  • Good Things

• I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!

  

  Warren Spector
  • School
  • New York
  • Stand

• He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Wonder
  • Wonders
  • Itself

• The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Worst
  • Test

• The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Father

• Dream within a dream, Our dream deferred. Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Morning

• But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People

• It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

  

  Christo
  • Work
  • Important
  • Vision

• I think it's really important for managers to be liked by his players because ultimately, on the pitch, those players will give everything for their manager.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Important

• The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Time

• Fashion is a mirror, reflecting the culture.

  

  Bill Cunningham The Box Tops
  • Culture
  • Fashion
  • Mirror

• In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Moving

• The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • True

• I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Women
  • Business
  • Direction

• We've made a lot of changes. Our roster is not set in stone. It's a very young team, our average age is 25. It's going to try the patience of its coach.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Age
  • Team
  • Patience

• In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Desire

• Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself?

  

  Norman Spinrad
  • Reality
  • Illusion
  • Distinction