Norman Spinrad Quotes
Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself?
Quotes to Explore
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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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.'
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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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!
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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!
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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Dream within a dream, Our dream deferred. Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard?
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But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.
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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.
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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.
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Fashion is a mirror, reflecting the culture.
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In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.
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The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.
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The only way you can get to know each other is by hanging out.
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Often, the people who speak loudest about republican values are the least when it comes to honouring them.
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I don't live in Los Angeles. I work in Los Angeles, and even that - I audition in Los Angeles; I very rarely film in Los Angeles. I don't hang out with producers on my off-hours, so I don't even know what that world is like.
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I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know.
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We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.
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Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.
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It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges.
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There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.
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Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself?
