"I felt, "Oh, film is a great art because I can pull in music and visual imagery, and it has its literary aspects and drama." Film was a sort of Wagnerian synthesis of the arts, as opposed to opera, which Wagner had thought would be. That's another art form that has seen its best days."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

James Toback

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“You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.”

Source : "Billy Crystal Has Some Advice For 2013 Oscars’ Host Seth MacFarlane On ‘Katie’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.
“Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?”

Source : FaceBook post by Bill Maher from Mar 26, 2010
“I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.”
“I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.”
“At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.”
“Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?”
“There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.”

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