Alan Charles Korsun Quotes
It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses - the precise place where you would expect to see the least.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
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Yoga is just good for you.
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Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don't.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses - the precise place where you would expect to see the least.
