Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
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Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.
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I didnt at first because horror movies scared me too much, but I really do love the genre and its a playground where you can really be artistic and create ideas in the minds of the audience and portray the unreal. Its very cool experimentation ground for a filmmaker.
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
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You must work for yourself; for what you reject may be as important for you to have seen and thought about, as what you adopt.
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I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
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Democrats cannot conceive of 'hate speech' towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it.
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I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.
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It doesn't matter who other people are saying the favourite is; I'm still going in to win the gold medal.
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Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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I try to take everyone's head off, to tell the truth.
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Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.
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There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
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You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
