Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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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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When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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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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Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.
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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
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Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
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You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
