"A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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“The way I generally work is that I do try to leave as many decisions as I possibly can to the day of, because it feels like that's where you're most in tune to what's going on. I sort of feel like my job is to be a conduit to opportunities, to maximize the creativity of the day itself - because that's when the cameras are running. That's the important thing to me.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.”
“Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.”
“I consider myself a good improviser but Will and Kevin showed me I have a lot to learn.”
“Then there’s Isabel Leonard, as the male character, Sesto. Her voice has the rich, fragrant depth of sandalwood and she looks so sublimely boyish yet fulsomely feminine that she combines the best of both genders. I adored her.”
“With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (1970). “Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung”
“But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!”
“Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!”

Source : "Bacall Blasts Twilight Vampires" by wenn.com, August 26, 2009.

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