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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Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
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I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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Marketers want to get their messages in front of you. They must get their messages in front of you, just to survive. The only problem is-do you really want more marketing messages?
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I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at 'Gossip Girl' auditions, thinking, 'Wow, I really wasted my money.'
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When I graduated from college in 1996 and the Internet was taking off, I remember this feeling that there was an open range where anything could be built.
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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.
