"All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else."

-- Franz Kafka

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“When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!”
“Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.”
“Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.”
“Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.”
“The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously, are civilians, and they tend to distrust, and to suspect, the military's motives.”

Source : "Rumsfeld’s Spy Unit". "To the Point" with Warren Olney, NPR, markriebling.blogs.com. October 31, 2002.
“There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?”

Source : Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1839). “The Works of Mrs Hemans;: With a Memoir of Her Life,”, p.77
“For me, itâ€™s not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.”
“I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows.”

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