"Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it validated our existence, our culture. He used the language of the street at the time and made it art. Art tends to be validating."

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Source : Source: screenanarchy.com

Erik Parker

#Art Quotes #Mind Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.”

Source : "Ken Loach and Paul Laverty". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.
“Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.”

Source : Attributed
“They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.”
“They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They are snobs. Frightful snobsÂ I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!”
“Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.”

Source : Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.161, University of Chicago Press
“I can't compare family to athletics.”
“I believe, in my prime, I could have fought with anybody alive.”
“O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.”

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